{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-02","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-06-28","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":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"138440A","mode_s_code":"52767672","mode_s_hex":"ABEFBA","model":"737-8H4","n_number":"N8686A","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chicago","damage":"MINR","date":"2021-05-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DCA21LA133","probable_cause":"the failure of the flight crew of N8686A to provide sufficient clearance while taxiing past N289CT, which was stopped.","registration":"N8686A","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on May 21, 2021 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8686A is a Boeing 737-8H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36938 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8686A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-2096, cancelled March 26, 2001). 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 N8686A: Accident on May 21, 2021 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor 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":"36938","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":"01192427","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8686A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"752351908"}