{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-01-11","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13100","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL","engine_model":"CFM56-7B27E/F","engine_thrust_lb":27300,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-29","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1384414","mode_s_code":"52727217","mode_s_hex":"ABAE8F","model":"737-800","n_number":"N8518R","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8518R is a Boeing 737-800, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 63593 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8518R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Schilleci Victor Iii SIDEWINDER (serial 212709, cancelled January 20, 1996); Bellanca Inc 14-19-3A (serial 4280, cancelled April 24, 1970). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8518R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":175,"serial_number":"63593","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":"01217241","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8518R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"752351908"}