Boeing 747-422
N120UA is a Boeing 747-422, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 495 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 11, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-422 · all 747-422s and related versions
- Serial number
- 29166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 495
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A05575 (octal 50052565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 11, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00613777
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Attn: Treasurer Willis Tower
233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N120UA, 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.
Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 11, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N120UA according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
2 NTSB records under N120UA: Incident on October 22, 2014 at Frankfurt: minor damage. Accident on June 27, 2007 at Oceanic: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747 422
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a Boeing 747 that occurred on October 22, 2014. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the BFU's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Operator and State of Manufacturer and Design of the airplane. All investigative information will be released by the BFU.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA15WA015 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-422 · operated under 121
An in-flight encounter with turbulence that resulted in serious injury to a flight attendant.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX07LA204 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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