Special livery
Stars and Stripes livery
United aircraft with a blue fuselage, 50 stars and red and white striping for the US 250th anniversary.
Since Jun 15, 2026 · Confirmed Sep 28, 2026
Airframe story
N78285 is a Boeing 737-824, serial 33452, built in 2004. FAA records show it registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA as trustee beginning in 2004, with the trust structure later shifting to UMB Bank N.A. as trustee from 2018, consistent with a leasing arrangement rather than a change of operator. Reporting on United's Stars and Stripes livery, unveiled to mark America's 250th anniversary and the nearly 600 military pilots who had joined United since 2024, describes a design with 50 stars and diagonal red and white stripes, painted in Amarillo, Texas, and applied to a Boeing 737 and a Boeing 787-10. The cited snippets do not themselves name N78285 as the aircraft carrying this scheme, so that identification cannot be confirmed here. Over the observed year the jet logged stops at Miami, Chicago, Melbourne, San Francisco, and Chicago again, with its most recent chapter finding it at Houston Bush Intercontinental.
Sister ships
- N37293 · Bank of Utah (trustee)629 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Aug 27
- N76288 · United Airlines1062 flights since Dec, last seen Oct 10
- N73291 · Umb Bank Na (trustee)823 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 10
- N33292 · United Airlines1024 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 10
- N87512 · United Airlines1198 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 10
- N78511 · United Airlines1182 flights since at least Oct 2025, last seen Oct 10
135 Boeing 737-824 are in the FAA records; 135 still registered; 135 flew in the last year. Most sit with United Airlines Inc (126) and Umb Bank Na Trustee (6).
From the FAA registry and observed flights. Inferences are labeled; outside facts are cited.