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N1902U, a Airbus A320-232
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N1902U

Airbus A320-232

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N1902U is an Airbus A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 200 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 5, 2018.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airbus
Model
A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A320 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2714
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Iae V2527-A5 · 24,800 lb thrust
Seats
200
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A16ADC (octal 50265334)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 6, 2017
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
July 5, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 2018
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01268026

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N1902U links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1902U, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 6, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2018, 12 years after the 2006 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2714 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1902U according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N1902U: Accident on March 22, 2023 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 10, 2020 at New Orleans, LA: serious injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

DCA23LA221Accident on March 22, 2023 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus A320-232 · operated under 121

The first officer's failure to maintain the correct airspeed and pitch attitude during landing which resulted in a tailstrike.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

DCA20CA058Accident on January 10, 2020 at New Orleans, LA: serious injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus A320 · operated under 121

an encounter with convectively induced turbulence while overflying an area of known convective activity.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data