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N12020

Boeing 787-10

Valid Illinois

N12020 is a Boeing 787-10, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 120 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 14, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-10 · all 787-10s and related versions
Serial number
66989
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B76/P2 · 78,500 lb thrust
Seats
120
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A05669 (octal 50053151)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 20, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 14, 2022
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01359346

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2000-09-06Maule M-4 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N12020, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 20, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 14, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 66989 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N12020 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maule M-4 (serial 30, cancelled September 6, 2000). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N12020: Accident on September 6, 1988 at Eureka Creek, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC88LA127Accident on September 6, 1988 at Eureka Creek, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 30

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule M-4 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC88LA127 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data