Boeing 737-824
N87531 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2011. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 17, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
- Serial number
- 39999
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B26/3 · 25,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AC0BC4 (octal 53005704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2011
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 17, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01060886
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N87531, 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 March 18, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 17, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87531 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 421B (serial 421B0966, cancelled September 29, 1975); Republic RC-3 (serial 91, cancelled January 4, 1950). 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]
1 NTSB record under N87531: Accident on December 18, 2022 at Chiacam: 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: Boeing 737-824 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA23WA097 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
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