{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-08-28","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-08-29","city":"FORT WORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13803","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL.","engine_model":"CFM56-7B","engine_thrust_lb":20000,"expiration_date":"2031-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-08-29","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13844CB","mode_s_code":"53305440","mode_s_hex":"AD8B20","model":"737-823","n_number":"N972AN","name":"AMERICAN AIRLINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Boston","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-10-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC04CA003","probable_cause":"The collision of a ground support vehicle with a parked aircraft, due to the faulty gearshift lever on the ground support vehicle.","registration":"N972AN","state":"MA","summary":"Accident on October 4, 2003 at Boston, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N972AN is a Boeing 737-823, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 162 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 28, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 2007, 6 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30097 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N972AN according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N972AN: Accident on October 4, 2003 at Boston, MA: no 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":162,"serial_number":"30097","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1 SKYVIEW DR MD 8B369","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00123914","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N972AN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"761551801"}