Boeing 757-224
N13138 is a Boeing 757-224, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. 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 2, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 7, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-224 · all 757-224s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30351
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES · 22,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A081CA (octal 50100712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 7, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00875752
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N13138, 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 2, 2000, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 7, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13138 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schwartz Edward SCHWARTZ E GLIDER (serial 1, cancelled February 20, 1934). 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 N13138: Accident on February 26, 2024 at San Francisco, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 10, 2023 at Lake Butler, FL: 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 757-224 · operated under 091
The crew’s over-rotation of the aircraft pitch during takeoff which resulted in a tailstrike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA24LA110 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 757 · operated under 121
An inadvertent encounter with convectively induced turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA23LA477 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