Boeing 787-9
N29968 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 60141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A31A34 (octal 50615064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 19, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01238359
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 N29968, 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 January 5, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29968 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 18504287, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N29968: Accident on July 1, 2017 at Fukushima: serious injuries. Accident on April 24, 1983 at Pillager, MN: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 787-9 · operated under 121
The Japanese Transport Safety Board (JTSB) has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a Boeing 787-9 airplane that occurred on July 01, 2017. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the JTSB's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacturer and Design of the airplane.All investigative information will be released by the JTSB.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA17WA154 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 185F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83FA180 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