Boeing 787-8
N26909 is a Boeing 787-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2014. It has 260 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 22, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-8 · all 787-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 34827
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B70/P2 · 72,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 260
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A2A2E6 (octal 50521346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 22, 2014
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01132754
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 233 South Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606
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 N26909, 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 27, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 22, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34827 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26909 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 414 (serial 4140379, cancelled July 6, 1995). 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 N26909: Accident on February 3, 2019 at Pacific Ocean, PO: serious 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 · operated under 121
an inadvertent slip and fall that resulted in a serious injury.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA19CA090 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