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N39450

Boeing 737-924ER

Valid Illinois

N39450 is a Boeing 737-924ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 191 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-924ER · all 737-924ERs and related versions
Serial number
40004
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B26E · 26,300 lb thrust
Seats
191
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A494C5 (octal 51112305)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 2, 2012
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 30, 2012
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01087410

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn Treasurer Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
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 2

1990-08-21Lake LA-4-200 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1943-10-12Stinson 10A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N39450, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 2, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N39450 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lake LA-4-200 (serial 540, cancelled August 21, 1990); Stinson 10A (serial 8250, cancelled October 12, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N39450: Accident on September 5, 1987 at Coal Lake, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC87FA140Accident on September 5, 1987 at Coal Lake, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 540

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA-4-200 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC87FA140 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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