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N442UA

Airbus Industrie A320-232

Valid Illinois

N442UA is an Airbus Industrie A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 200 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 16, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Industrie
Model
A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
Serial number
780
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
Seats
200
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A553CE (octal 51251716)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 2013
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
January 2, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 16, 1998
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00097061

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn Treasurer Willis Tower
233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N442UA, 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 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 16, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 780 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N442UA according to the deregistered file. [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 N442UA: Incident on February 26, 2008 at Jackson, WY: minor injuries, minor damage. 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

DCA08IA044Incident on February 26, 2008 at Jackson, WY: minor injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus Industrie A320 · operated under 121

the loss of braking action on the left main landing gear due to the cross connection of the wheel speed tachometer wires that was caused by inadequate maintenance performed on the airplane during the installation of the main landing gear.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA08IA044 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