Boeing 787-8
N29907 is a Boeing 787-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2013. It has 260 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 30, 2013.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-8 · all 787-8s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. Carbon-fibre fuselage and wings, the first airliner built mostly of composite. This is how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 34830
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B70 · 72,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 260
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A31961 (octal 50614541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 30, 2013
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01128404
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N29907 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 787 Dreamliner 214 registered
- Boeing 6,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric GENX-1B70 2 aircraft with this engine series · 72,300 lb thrust
- United Airlines INC 1,217 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,561 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,052 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 125 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 3,555 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 82 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric GENX-1B70 22 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, dim · 2026-09-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Unit, faulty · 2026-05-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Lens, missing · 2026-04-19
- Where N29907 is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N29907, 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 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 30, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29907 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale SA315B (serial 205320, cancelled July 15, 1988). 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 N29907: Accident on June 10, 1984 at Salina, UT: 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: Aerospatiale SA-315B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data