{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2023-11-21","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-11-30","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13120","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL","engine_model":"LEAP-1B28 SER","engine_thrust_lb":29317,"expiration_date":"2030-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-30","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13844FZ","mode_s_code":"53037411","mode_s_hex":"AC3F09","model":"737-8","n_number":"N8888M","name":"SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BAKERSFIELD","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-02-06","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX90FA084","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ACTIVATE THE PITOT HEAT BEFORE FLYING AT AND ABOVE THE FREEZING LEVEL IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC), FOLLOWED BY HIS IMPROPER RESPONSE TO ERRONEOUS AIRSPEED INDICATIONS THAT RESULTED FROM BLOCKAGE OF THE PITOT TUBE BY ATMOSPHERIC ICING.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS SPATIAL DISORIENTATION OF THE PILOT.","registration":"N8888M","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 6, 1990 at Bakersfield, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CAMP PENDLETON","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-03-24","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX87FA153","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8888M","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on March 24, 1987 at Camp Pendleton, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8888M is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2023. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 21, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued November 30, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated November 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 67963 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8888M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4622091, cancelled December 4, 1990); Beech V35B (serial D9397, cancelled date not given). 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":"2 NTSB records under N8888M: Accident on February 6, 1990 at Bakersfield, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on March 24, 1987 at Camp Pendleton, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":175,"serial_number":"67963","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":"01390139","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8888M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"75235"}