Boeing 737-724
N16709 is a Boeing 737-724, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 30, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-724 · all 737-724s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28779
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A10E29 (octal 50207051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 30, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00776961
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 N16709, 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 March 28, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 30, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16709 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-2 (serial 717, cancelled date not given). 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 N16709: Accident on June 13, 2012 at Winnie, TX: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-724 · operated under 121
the flight crew's penetration of a rapidly developing thunderstorm cell in an area of forecasted convective activity. The serious injuries were the result of a misunderstanding between the captain and cabin crew regarding the potential for turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA12LA091 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