Boeing 787-9
N24972 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2018. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 16, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 40939
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX SERIES · 56,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A254D6 (octal 50452326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 16, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01268703
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N24972, 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 January 17, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 16, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N24972 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15280482, cancelled July 15, 2009); Piper J3F-50 (serial 3574, cancelled March 23, 1954). 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 N24972: Incident on March 2, 2026 at Los Angeles, CA: 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 787-9 · operated under 121
On March 2, 2026, at 1100 Pacific Standard Time, United Airlines flight 2127, a Boeing 787-9, registration N24972, powered by two General Electric GEnx™-1B76A/P2 turbofan engines, experienced a No. 1 (left) engine surge during climb from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, California. There were no injuries to the 2 flight crew, 9 cabin crew, or 239 passengers on board. United Airlines operated the airplane as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 domestic passenger flight destined for Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Newark, New Jersey. According to the …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA26LA184 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