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N793UA

Boeing 777-222

Valid Illinois

N793UA is a Boeing 777-222, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1997. 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 October 6, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
777-222 · all 777-222s and related versions
Serial number
26946
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
Seats
400
Year built
1997
Transponder code
AAC4ED (octal 52542355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 2013
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
December 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 6, 1997
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00686651

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

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N793UA, 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 April 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated October 6, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26946 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N793UA 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N793UA: Incident on May 26, 2025 at Beijing: 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

ENG25LA038Incident on May 26, 2025 at Beijing: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 777 · operated under 121

On May 26, 2025, at approximately 0925 UTC, a Boeing 777-200, registration N793UA, operated as United Airlines flight 889, executed a rejected takeoff at Beijing Capital International Airport when the crew heard a loud bang and followed by a No. 2 (right) engine failure warning. The airplane came to an uneventful stop on the runway, passengers were deplaned, and the airplane was later defueled and towed clear of the runway. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 flight from Beijing Capital International Airport (ZBAA) to San Francisco International Airpo…

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG25LA038 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