Boeing 757-222
N503UA is a Boeing 757-222, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1989. It has 178 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 September 20, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-222 · all 757-222s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24624
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2040 · 40,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A646D8 (octal 51443330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 20, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00704681
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
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.
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The public federal record on N503UA, 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 September 20, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24624 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N503UA 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 N503UA: Accident on March 23, 1996 at Taos, NM: serious 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: Boeing B-757-222 · operated under 121
an encounter with unforecasted clear air turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA157 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