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N24973

Boeing 787-9

Valid Illinois

N24973 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 February 12, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 11, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
Serial number
40941
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX SERIES · 56,300 lb thrust
Seats
422
Year built
2018
Transponder code
A254D7 (octal 50452327)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 12, 2018
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
February 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · February 11, 2018
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01270016

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1990-02-08Piper PA-38-112 · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1965-05-21Piper J4A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N24973, 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 February 12, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 11, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40941 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N24973 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3879A0739, cancelled February 8, 1990); Piper J4A (serial 4-773, cancelled May 21, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N24973. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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