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N78017

Boeing 777-224

Valid Illinois

N78017 is a Boeing 777-224, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 400 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 7, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
777-224
Serial number
31679
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge GE90-90B · 94,000 lb thrust
Seats
400
Year built
2002
Transponder code
AA9321 (octal 52511441)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 15, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 7, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00084037

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn: Treasuer Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
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

1948-11-12Globe GC-1B · Valid registration

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