Boeing 787-9
N27957 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 August 31, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 21, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A2CB12 (octal 50545422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 21, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01186330
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N27957, 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 August 31, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 21, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27957 according to the deregistered file. [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 N27957: Incident on May 14, 2024 at Singapore, OF: no injuries, minor 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 787 · operated under 121
The uncontained left engine failure was caused by the failure and liberation of the HPT stage 1 aft blade retainer as a result of a fatigue crack in the upper collet radius that originated from a surface connected cluster of Oxide/Carbonitride/Nitride/Carbide (OCNC) particles. Contributing to the failure of the HPT stage 1 aft blade retainer was an unknown material behavior unique to OCNC clusters in Rene 65 material that are surface connected in highly stressed material that may result in a localized reduction of material fatigue life capability.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG24LA014 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data