Boeing 777-222
N779UA is a Boeing 777-222, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 400 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 July 25, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-222 · all 777-222s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26941
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 400
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AA8C39 (octal 52506071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 25, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00705442
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 N779UA, 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 July 25, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26941 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N779UA 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 N779UA: Accident on July 17, 2003 at Chicago, IL: 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 B777-222 · operated under 121
The turbulence encountered during the descent which seriously injured a passenger returning to her seat after the seat belt sign was activated. A factor was that it was not possible for the returning passenger to comply with the lit seat belt sign.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA237 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
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