Boeing 787-9
N15969 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2017. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 11, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 60142
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A0EEEA (octal 50167352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 11, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01238360
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 N15969, 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 February 16, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 11, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15969 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7325215, cancelled June 16, 2003). 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 N15969: Accident on December 4, 2002 at Phelan, CA: fatal, substantial damage (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: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed while maneuvering that lead to a stall spin and impact with flat desert terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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