N196NV

This airframe, registered in the United States as N196NV, is an Airbus A320-214 built in 2016 with manufacturer's serial number 6965. The airframe is recorded as owned by ALLEGIANT AIR LLC, a Las Vegas, Nevada-based corporation, and is operated in a leisure/domestic short-to-medium haul role from that operator's U.S. base. The aircraft carries a U.S. registration and has a fixed-wing multi-engine certification basis appropriate to its family. Maintenance and registry records for this specific airframe reflect typical operator-led heavy checks and a high-density configuration consistent with its operator; ownership is held by ALLEGIANT AIR LLC (Las Vegas, NV, US).

The airframe is configured in a high-density single-class cabin layout with approximately 182 seats tailored to leisure and domestic route economics. The flight deck is the Airbus A320 standard fit, incorporating Airbus EFIS displays and full fly-by-wire avionics common to the family, supporting crew workflows and common-type pilot qualification across fleet types. Typical missions for this installation include short- to medium-range scheduled services within a single carrier network, emphasizing high seat count utilization and frequent daily rotations; maintenance considerations follow the A320 structural and engine shop visit cycles for CFM56-5B-series powerplants.

The Airbus A320-214 occupies the single-aisle short-to-medium-haul segment, offering operators a balance of capacity and range suitable for dense domestic and leisure markets, with a range of 3,300 nm and cruise speeds near 447 kts. Competing models include contemporaneous narrowbodies from Boeing and later Airbus variants; market demand for high-density A320s remains strong among low-cost and leisure carriers. Resale and maintenance considerations for this serial-numbered 2016 airframe reflect the broader A320 family market: established aftermarket support, commonality benefits for operators with CFM56-5B engines, and predictable heavy maintenance scheduling driven by utilization.