Boeing 787-9
N29985 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 May 27, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 25, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 787-9 · all 787-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 66144
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 422
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A31A77 (octal 50615167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 25, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01321630
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N29985, 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 May 27, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 25, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 66144 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29985 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 (serial 56, cancelled June 11, 1982); Waco UPF-7 (serial 5482, cancelled November 16, 1954). 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 N29985. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data