Boeing 737-8
N27290 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 June 12, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 44309
- 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
- A2B196 (octal 50530626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 21, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01370041
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N27290, 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 June 12, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27290 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-325 (serial 31-7712058, cancelled June 28, 1977). 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 N27290: Accident on March 8, 2024 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 737-8 · operated under 121
The captain's decision not to establish and maintain deceleration devices in accordance with company training and standard operating procedures.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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