Airbus Industrie A320-232
N431UA is an Airbus Industrie A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 200 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 10, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Industrie
- Model
- A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
- Serial number
- 571
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 200
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A52898 (octal 51224230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 10, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00795841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 233 South Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N431UA, 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 3, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 10, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 571 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N431UA according to the deregistered file. [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 N431UA: Incident on October 10, 2007 at Chicago, IL: minor injuries, minor 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: Airbus Industrie A320-232 · operated under 121
The misrouted and reversed antiskid wiring by vendor maintenance personnel leading to the runway excursion. Contributing to the incident were the runway sign, the vendor's maintenance personnel not understanding the entire maintenance procedures in the dual tachometer replacement, and the operator's maintenance procedures being unclear to the maintenance personnel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08IA026 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data