Tail character
Chinook the Gray wolf
Frontier's tail art on this aircraft features Chinook, a gray wolf.
Confirmed Sep 28, 2026
Airframe story
N369FR is a Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-251N, MSN 10031, registered to Wilmington Trust Co as trustee from 2020. Frontier's animal tail art, including this jet's livery, is a branding device the airline uses because a distinctive animal prompts recognition and is simple and inexpensive to execute. The aircraft's most notable public moment came on April 16, 2025, when it operated flight 9369 from San Francisco to Denver, a routing that took five hours and 34 minutes on a route usually flown in under two and a half hours. Flight-tracking data showed the jet flying south along the California coast nearly to the Mexican border before turning east to parallel the border into Texas and then north to Denver. Over the observed year the aircraft logged 1,279 flights and 2,315 hours, and its current stay at Phoenix (KPHX) is its likely chapter, consistent with an active narrowbody cycling through Frontier's route network.
Sister ships
- N305FRU.S. registration ended, Aug 2026
- N7581Exported to Bermuda, May 2021
- N576AEExported to Bermuda, Apr 2021
- N370FR · Umb Bank Na (trustee)1135 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 8
- N371FR · Wilmington Trust (trustee)1334 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 7
- N372FR · Wilmington Trust (trustee)1371 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 10
109 Airbus A320-251N are in the FAA records; 106 still registered; 107 flew in the last year. Most sit with Bank of Utah Trustee (61) and Wilmington Trust Co Trustee (18).
From the FAA registry and observed flights. Inferences are labeled; outside facts are cited.