Boeing 737-924ER
N28478 is a Boeing 737-924ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2013. It has 191 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-924ER · all 737-924ERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 31649
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 191
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A2E045 (octal 50560105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 23, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01114398
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 233 South Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606
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 N28478, 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 July 25, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31649 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28478 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 1345, cancelled February 2, 1950). 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 N28478: Accident on June 16, 2025 at Fort Myers, FL: 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 737-924ER · operated under 121
The airplane’s inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence during descent, which resulted in serious injuries to two flight attendants.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA25LA238 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
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