Airbus A319-131
N853UA is an Airbus A319-131, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2002. It has 179 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 30, 2002.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A319-131 · all A319-131s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A319 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Iae V2500SERIES · 25,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 179
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- ABB440 (octal 52732100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 30, 2002
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00264177
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). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N853UA links to the rest of the register
- Airbus A319 329 registered
- Airbus 1,511 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- International Aero Engines V2500 series 262 aircraft with this engine series · 25,000 lb thrust
- Type certificate A28NM · held by Airbus Sas
- United Airlines INC 1,216 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,559 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus A319 484 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus A319 50,267 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus A319 311 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the International Aero Engines V2500 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the International Aero Engines V2500 series 306 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Cap, missing · 2026-04-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Floor Support, corroded · 2026-01-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, contaminated · 2026-01-15
- Where N853UA is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N853UA, 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 May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 30, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N853UA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N853UA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data