DJI AGRAS T100
N1197 is a DJI AGRAS T100, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Goranson Drone Services LLC, an LLC in Red Oak, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- DJI (China)
- Model
- AGRAS T100 · all AGRAS T100s and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the DJI AGRAS T100 agricultural drone family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1581F8ZLC259U002C5DD
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 8 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A050EF (octal 50050357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01539390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goranson Drone Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1965 G Ave
Red Oak, IA 51566-4474
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 2
Connections how N1197 links to the rest of the register
- DJI AGRAS T100 agricultural drone 936 registered
- DJI 7,031 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Goranson Drone Services LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Red Oak, IA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Red Oak Municipal · RDK
- Iowa 4,515 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1197.json.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1197, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Goranson Drone Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 24, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1581F8ZLC259U002C5DD for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1197 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 407 (serial 53151, cancelled August 2, 2020); Henry 1909 BLERIOT XI (serial 1, cancelled January 24, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1197: Incident on May 30, 2014 at Eugene Island 182A: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 407 · operated under 135
The improper repair of the outer combustion case, which led to its ultimate failure due to the continued progression of a fatigue crack and resulted in a partial loss of engine power during takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data