Airbus Industrie A319-131
N801UA is an Airbus Industrie A319-131, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1997. It has 179 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 July 7, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Industrie
- Model
- A319-131 · all A319-131s and related versions
- Serial number
- 686
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 179
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AAE757 (octal 52563527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 7, 1997
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00216651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- 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 N801UA, 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 July 7, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N801UA 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 N801UA: Accident on May 9, 2011 at Chillicothe, MO: serious injuries. 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: Airbus A319 · operated under 121
An inadvertent encounter with unforecast convective turbulence.
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