Embraer EMB-145XR
N21197 is an Embraer EMB-145XR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 55 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 12, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145XR · all EMB-145XRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14500947
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc AE3007 SER · 6,442 lb thrust
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A1C0EC (octal 50340354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 12, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00225669
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 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N21197, 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 April 20, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 12, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14500947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21197 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 206-L4 (serial 52223, cancelled November 26, 1999); Bell 206B (serial 3455, cancelled January 29, 1991); Piper PA-32RT-300T (serial 32R-7887195, cancelled March 5, 1980). 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 N21197: Accident on February 16, 1988 at Martinsville, IN: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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: Bell 206B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA064 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data