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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Industrie
- Model
- A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A320 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
- 571
- 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 · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 200
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A52898 (octal 51224230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- 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 · April 10, 1996
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00795841
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 South Wacker Dr
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.
Connections how N431UA links to the rest of the register
- Airbus A320 795 registered
- Airbus Industrie 487 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- International Aero Engines V2500 series 262 aircraft with this engine series · 25,000 lb thrust
- Type certificate A28NM · held by Airbus Sas
- United Airlines INC 1,220 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,563 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus A320 658 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus A320 64,806 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus A320 429 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the International Aero Engines V2500 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the International Aero Engines V2500 series 306 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cover, broken · 2026-10-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire Harness, damaged · 2026-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Cap, missing · 2025-12-26
- Where N431UA is now · Last seen today at 5:19 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data