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N26952

Boeing 787-9

Valid Illinois

N26952 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2015. 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 17, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 10, 2015. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
Serial number
36403
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
Seats
422
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A2A38E (octal 50521616)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 17, 2015
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
February 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · February 10, 2015
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01169490

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 1

2026-09-03Loan release

Earlier use of this number 1

1982-05-20Gulfstream American Corp AA-5A · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N26952, 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 17, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 10, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36403 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N26952 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream American Corp AA-5A (serial AA5A-0836, cancelled May 20, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N26952. 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