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N78866

Boeing 757-33N

Valid Illinois

N78866 is a Boeing 757-33N, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 275 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 26, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
757-33N · all 757-33Ns and related versions
Serial number
32591
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc RB-211-22 · 4000 hp
Seats
275
Year built
2002
Transponder code
AAB187 (octal 52530607)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 26, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00634047

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N78866, 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 September 15, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 26, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32591 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N78866 according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N78866. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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