Boeing 777-224
N78009 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 April 22, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 20, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-224 · all 777-224s and related versions
- Serial number
- 29479
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GE90-90B · 94,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 400
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AA9300 (octal 52511400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 20, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00183647
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78009, 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 22, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 20, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29479 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78009 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 2009, cancelled February 11, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78009. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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