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N28987

Boeing 787-9

Valid Illinois

N28987 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2021. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 25, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-9
Serial number
66146
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B74/75/ · 76,700 lb thrust
Seats
422
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A2F2FA (octal 50571372)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 30, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 25, 2021
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01321633

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1990-01-23Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data