Boeing 777-222
N798UA 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 February 27, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-222 · all 777-222s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26928
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 400
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AAD780 (octal 52553600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 27, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00606651
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.
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The public federal record on N798UA, 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 February 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N798UA 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 N798UA: Incident on January 19, 2006 at Denver, CO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing B777-200B · operated under 121
the truck driver's failure to maintain clearance from the airplane and the boom operator's failure to adequately clear the boom from the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the low visibility due to snow and mist.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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