Embraer EMB-145XR
N12172 is an Embraer EMB-145XR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2004. It has 55 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 28, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145XR · all EMB-145XRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14500864
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc AE3007 SER · 6,442 lb thrust
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A05AD1 (octal 50055321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 28, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00137019
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12172, 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 May 6, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 28, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14500864 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12172 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17261858, cancelled April 30, 1998). 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]
1 NTSB record under N12172: Accident on December 25, 1997 at Raleigh-Durham, NC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
Was loss of control of the airplane on initial climb after entering instrument flight conditions resulting in a turn opposite in direction from that given by ATC, and eventual collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98FA045 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