Boeing 757-224
N17105 is a Boeing 757-224, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1994. 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, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 18, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-224 · all 757-224s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27295
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES · 22,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A11F5A (octal 50217532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 18, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00584702
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 N17105, 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, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 18, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27295 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17105 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15073626, cancelled May 1, 1974). 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 N17105: Incident on October 28, 2006 at Newark, NJ: no 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 757-224 · operated under 121
The flight crew's misidentification of the parallel taxiway as the active runway, resulting in the flight crew executing a landing on the taxiway. Contributing was the night lighting conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC07IA015 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