Boeing 757-224
N12125 is a Boeing 757-224, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 178 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 30, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-224 · all 757-224s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28967
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES · 22,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A05A25 (octal 50055045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 30, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00126971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12125, 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 June 29, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 30, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28967 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12125 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17261824, cancelled September 12, 1973); Stinson JR. R (serial 8528, cancelled December 5, 1941). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N12125: Accident on September 19, 2024 at Dunnigan, CA: serious injuries. Accident on September 27, 2021 at Newark, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 757-224 · operated under 121
The abrupt pitch control input by the flight crew in response to a TCAS resolution advisory resulted in two serious passenger injuries.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA24LA316 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 757-224 · operated under 121
The nose high attitude on landing resulted in a tailstrike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA22LA002 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