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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-222 · all 757-222s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 757 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
- 24871
- 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 · P & W PW2040 · 40,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A680EA (octal 51500352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 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 · September 14, 1990
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00864991
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 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.
Connections how N518UA links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 757 440 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PW2040 88 aircraft with this engine series · 40,900 lb thrust
- United Airlines INC 1,216 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,559 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 757 375 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 757 97,473 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 757 782 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PW2040 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PW2040 2,201 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gcu, malfunctioned · 2019-10-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Probe, failed · 2019-05-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Start Valve, inoperative · 2019-04-26
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N518UA.json.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data