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N73275

Boeing 737-824

Valid Illinois

N73275 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
Serial number
31593
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
Seats
149
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A9D5E4 (octal 52352744)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 14, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 14, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · February 21, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00874027

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
233 South Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1985-09-20Bell 47G-4 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N73275, 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 August 14, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31593 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N73275 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-4 (serial 3133, cancelled September 20, 1985). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N73275: Incident on December 30, 2020 at San Jose, OF: no 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

DCA21WA061Incident on December 30, 2020 at San Jose, OF: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-824 · operated under 121

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA21WA061 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