Airbus A320-232
N493UA is an Airbus A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. 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 August 15, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A320-232 · all A320-232s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1821
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 200
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A61D00 (octal 51416400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 15, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00964114
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.
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The public federal record on N493UA, 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 April 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 15, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1821 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N493UA 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 N493UA: Incident on March 23, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries. 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 320-200 · operated under 121
The probable cause of this incident was the ORD tower local controller's failure to provide sufficient separation between two aircraft departing intersecting runways. Contributing to the incident was the ORD local monitor's failure to monitor the situating and advise the local controller of the developing situation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for OPS06IA007 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