{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-01-11","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-01-30","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":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"138440A","mode_s_code":"52762271","mode_s_hex":"ABE4B9","model":"737-8H4","n_number":"N8657B","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PLAINWELL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-05-16","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI93LA176","probable_cause":"THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S INITIATING HAND STARTING OF THE AIRPLANE UNATTENDED BY A QUALIFIED PERSON.","registration":"N8657B","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on May 16, 1993 at Plainwell, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8657B is a Boeing 737-8H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2015. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 11, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated January 11, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42535 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8657B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 36357, cancelled June 5, 2008). 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 N8657B: Accident on May 16, 1993 at Plainwell, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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":"42535","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":"01155017","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8657B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"752351908"}