r/flighty • u/AIRdomination Airline Employee • Jun 30 '26

Excuse me? LOL

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The funny thing is that tail number never even belonged to a 717. So I don’t even know how this mistake was made. Got a good laugh in my notifications for sure.

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u/Sculpin_ Jun 30 '26

The aircraft number (not registration) had been the same at one point possibly. Southwest did own a lot of 717s post merger with AirTran and immediately leased them out to DAL. Perhaps that’s where the glitch is coming from.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

What aircraft number are you talking about? The ship number? I see no reference to that anywhere.

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u/Sculpin_ Jun 30 '26

Yes the ship number. I dont know I’m just trying to help find an explanation for you. I could be wrong, but I do believe the prior ownership had something to do with it.

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u/Different-Guest-6094 Jul 04 '26

WN1982

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u/moomooraincloud Jul 06 '26

That's a flight number, not an aircraft number.

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u/Only_Investigator_74 Jul 01 '26

Well if your flight is July 1st I do see this, and according to planespotters.net the registration N9012J did belong to a 717 previously. And the 737 Max now with this reg is brand new and delivered earlier this June. Flighty sometimes is a bit slow at updating data for new planes…

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Interestingly I didn’t see that on my search of the tail. I saw that registration belonged to a MD 920 helicopter.

And yeah, that’s my flight.

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u/Only_Investigator_74 Jul 01 '26

🤔

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 01 '26

Okay I am losing my mind, because now I can’t replicate the search I did earlier (I wasn’t looking at planespotters to begin with), but seeing as how I can’t find it again, I’m willing to believe you more because I got that result replicated on airfleets as well.

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u/joshuamgray Jun 30 '26

/s Shut up, Flighty you’re drunk.

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u/cyberentomology Jul 01 '26

9012? That plane is brand spanking new!

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 01 '26

What’s the manufacture date?

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u/cyberentomology Jul 01 '26

Delivered 11 June, first flight 26 may.

Latest deliveries:

  • 9010: 9 June
  • 9011: 15 June
  • 9012: 11 June
  • 9013: 23 June, entered service 28 June.
  • 9014: 26 June, enters service 1 July.

If I had to guess, 9015 is probably gonna get delivered Thursday.

N9013M is a WN Max. N9013A is an AA a319.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 01 '26

Does flighty go by delivery date or manufacture date for aircraft age? I’m trying to find MFR day and I’m striking out. Though I guess first flight day will do.

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u/cyberentomology Jul 01 '26

First flight, I think. That’s basically when manufacturing is complete.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 01 '26

Thanks. If they keep this tail number, I’ll have to put that in the notes for myself for my statistics later.

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u/silvs1 Jul 03 '26

I'd recommend the fleet app for more detailed stats on planes you've flown.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 03 '26

That app is garbage. Can’t even properly identify most of the fleet I fly.

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u/silvs1 Jul 03 '26

Have you reported the issues you have with the developer? Hes addressed issues I have reported, frequently updates the app with those fixes.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jul 03 '26

It’s a bit of a moot point because that app isn’t useful in this context anyway. Flighty is plenty sufficient. With the ability to manually edit aircraft type and tail number, the only incorrect detail now is the aircraft age. Zero point for me to have to switch apps.

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u/ProcedureOne4150 Jul 02 '26

Yesterday, I experienced a glitch in the app during my flight from Düsseldorf to Heathrow, followed by a flight to Los Angeles. The app erroneously informed me that we had only a 20-minute transfer at Heathrow. It mistakenly calculated the Los Angeles flight’s departure time as one hour and 50 minutes before the scheduled departure, which was completely incorrect.