Boeing 787-8
N27903 is a Boeing 787-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 260 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-8 · all 787-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 34823
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX SERIES · 56,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 260
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A2CA5F (octal 50545137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 20, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01104708
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Attn Treasurer Willis Tower
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 N27903, 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 December 21, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34823 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27903 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S-60A (serial S60A379, cancelled December 4, 1998). 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 N27903: Accident on January 24, 2025 at Dabouzra: 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 787-8 · operated under 121
On January 24, 2025, about 00:31 universal coordinated time (UTC), United Airlines (UAL) flight 613, a Boeing 787-8, experienced altitude excursions during cruise flight while transitioning over Cote d’Ivoire airspace at 36,000 feet. Of the 11 crew members and 243 passengers on board, one person sustained a serious injury and 15 people sustained minor injuries. The aircraft sustained minor damage. The flight was operating under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a scheduled international passenger flight from Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS), Lagos, …
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- 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