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N27283

Boeing 737-8

Valid Illinois

N27283 is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2023. It has 175 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 27, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
Serial number
61857
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
Seats
175
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A2B176 (octal 50530566)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 18, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
April 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · January 27, 2023
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01370036

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

1992-09-16Fairchild SA227-AC · exported to Argentina · Valid registration
1983-02-15Dehavilland DHC-6-300 · exported to Nepal · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N27283, 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 April 18, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated January 27, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N27283 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC729, cancelled September 16, 1992); Dehavilland DHC-6-300 (serial 795, cancelled February 15, 1983). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N27283: Accident on September 7, 1989 at Los Angeles, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX89FA303Accident on September 7, 1989 at Los Angeles, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: AC-729

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SA227-AC · operated under 135

THE FUEL TRUCK DRIVER'S IMPROPER OPERATION OF THE VECHICLE ON THE AIRPORT. FACTORS WERE THE DRIVER'S DIVERTED ATTENTION AND THE INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY COMPANY MANAGEMENT.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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