Boeing 777-222
N796UA is a Boeing 777-222, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. 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 January 27, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-222 · all 777-222s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26931
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 400
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AAD012 (octal 52550022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 27, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00586651
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.
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The public federal record on N796UA, 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 January 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N796UA 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]
2 NTSB records under N796UA: Incident on September 9, 2025 at Ezeiza, OF: no injuries. Incident on July 29, 1998 at London Heathrow: no injuries, minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 777-222 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA25WA345 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 777 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA98WA074 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data