{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2012-07-13","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-07-25","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13078","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL","engine_model":"CFM56-7B27E","engine_thrust_lb":27300,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"138440A","mode_s_code":"52657433","mode_s_hex":"AB5F1B","model":"737-8H4","n_number":"N8315C","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Orlando","damage":"","date":"2025-03-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DCA25LA163","probable_cause":"The captain\u2019s failure to recognize that the airplane\u2019s location did not agree with the assigned departure runway as required per the Southwest Airlines Airplane Operating Manual, and the captain\u2019s plan continuation error when he missed several cues that would have informed him that he was not on the assigned departure runway when he initiated takeoff.","registration":"N8315C","state":"FL","summary":"Incident on March 20, 2025 at Orlando, FL: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8315C is a Boeing 737-8H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 13, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued July 25, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated July 13, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38811 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8315C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-7670121, cancelled February 18, 1976). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N8315C: Incident on March 20, 2025 at Orlando, FL: no injuries. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":143,"serial_number":"38811","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2702 LOVE FIELD DR # HDQ-4GC","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01083174","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8315C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"752351908"}