Boeing 737-824
N87512 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 17, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 7:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 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
- 33458
- 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
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B26 · 26,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC0B7F (octal 53005577)
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 22, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- 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 · May 17, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00444229
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
- Attn: Treasurer
Willis Tower 233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N87512 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,891 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56-7B26 64 aircraft with this engine series · 26,300 lb thrust
- 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 Boeing 737 853 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,304 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56-7B26 26 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flashlight, not seated · 2026-10-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2026-09-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Power Supply, no test · 2026-09-01
- Where N87512 is now · Last seen Wednesday at 7:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N87512, 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 22, 2008, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 17, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87512 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Republic RC-3 (serial 65, cancelled November 23, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N87512. 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