Boeing 757-222
N518UA is a Boeing 757-222, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1990. 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 10, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 14, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-222 · all 757-222s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24871
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2040 · 40,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A680EA (octal 51500352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 14, 1990
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00864991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 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 N518UA, 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 10, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 14, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24871 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518UA 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 N518UA: Accident on March 15, 2006 at Omaha, NE: 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 757-222 · operated under 121
An inadvertent encounter with unforecast mountain wave turbulence during cruise flight. A contributing factor was the mountain wave (terrain induced) turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06LA099 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