{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-09-30","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-10-03","city":"FORT WORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"34611","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"IAE","engine_model":"V2533-A5","engine_thrust_lb":31600,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Airbus","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3940032","mode_s_code":"53353155","mode_s_hex":"ADD66D","model":"A321-231","n_number":"N991AU","name":"AMERICAN AIRLINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chicago","damage":"MINR","date":"2017-07-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DCA17CA147","probable_cause":"the A321 flight crew's incorrect evaluation of the clearance between the aircraft, leading to the inadvertent collision with the horizontal stabilizer of the CRJ200.  Contributing to the accident was traffic congestion that resulted in the CRJ200 having to stop prior to fully clearing the perpendicular taxiway.","registration":"N991AU","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on July 1, 2017 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N991AU is an Airbus A321-231, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 379 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 3, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7131 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N991AU 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 N991AU: Accident on July 1, 2017 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":379,"serial_number":"7131","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1 SKYVIEW DR","street2":"MD 8B369","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01231012","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N991AU","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"76155"}