{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-08-15","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-04-01","city":"CHICAGO","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"34601","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"IAE","engine_model":"V2500SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":25000,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-01-02","maker":"Airbus","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3940004","mode_s_code":"51416400","mode_s_hex":"A61D00","model":"A320-232","n_number":"N493UA","name":"UNITED AIRLINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chicago","damage":"","date":"2006-03-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"OPS06IA007","probable_cause":"The probable cause of this incident was the ORD tower local controller's failure to provide sufficient separation between two aircraft departing intersecting runways.  Contributing to the incident was the ORD local monitor's failure to monitor the situating and advise the local controller of the developing situation.","registration":"N493UA","state":"IL","summary":"Incident on March 23, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N493UA is an Airbus A320-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 200 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 August 15, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated August 15, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1821 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N493UA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N493UA: Incident on March 23, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":200,"serial_number":"1821","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN TREASURER WILLIS TOWER","street2":"233 S WACKER DR","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00964114","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N493UA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"606067147"}