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Boeing 787-9
N29981 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 1, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen October 28 at 7:49 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s 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
- 66142
- 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-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A31A73 (octal 50615163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- 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 · August 1, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313353
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 2
Connections how N29981 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 787 Dreamliner 214 registered
- Boeing 6,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric GENX-1B74/75/ 60 aircraft with this engine series · 76,700 lb thrust
- United Airlines INC 1,221 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,564 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,060 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 126 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 3,572 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner 82 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric GENX-1B74/75/ 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric GENX-1B74/75/ 33 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sink, odor · 2025-04-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Concentrator, faulty · 2024-11-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, broken · 2023-05-05
- Where N29981 is now · Last seen October 28 at 7:49 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N29981.json.
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The public federal record on N29981, 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 September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 1, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 66142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29981 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A300 B4 (serial 087, cancelled June 6, 2011); Waco UPF-7 (serial 5478, cancelled April 3, 1943). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N29981. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data