Boeing 777-224
N78008 is a Boeing 777-224, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 400 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 28, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-224 · all 777-224s and related versions
- Serial number
- 29478
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GE90-90B · 94,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 400
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AA92FF (octal 52511377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 28, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00173647
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 N78008, 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 January 17, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 28, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78008 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 N78008: Accident on March 2, 2005 at Newark, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 777-200 · operated under 121
The captain's failure to follow company procedures, which resulted in a tail strike. Contributing were the gusty crosswind and tailwind conditions, and the manufacturer's failure to provide adequate performance planning data to account for gusty crosswinds during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC05FA054 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