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N29978

Boeing 787-9

Valid Illinois

N29978 is a Boeing 787-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 422 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 18, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-9
Serial number
66137
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GENX SERIES · 56,300 lb thrust
Seats
422
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A31A57 (octal 50615127)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 25, 2022
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
December 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 18, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01310627

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

—Bell 206B · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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