DJI AVATA
N120SC is a DJI AVATA, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to St Charles Parish Sheriffs Office, a government body in Luling, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- DJI (China)
- Model
- AVATA · all AVATAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1581F4QWB22A400303P5
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A05545 (octal 50052505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01428981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- St Charles Parish Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 220 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy
Luling, LA 70070-6235
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N120SC, 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 St Charles Parish Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued November 28, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. 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 1581F4QWB22A400303P5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120SC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Swearingen SA-226AT (serial AT067, cancelled September 18, 2014); Bell 47G-3B-1 (serial 3420, cancelled August 17, 1992). 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]
2 NTSB records under N120SC: Accident on June 3, 2014 at Dayton, TN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 5, 2008 at Ankeny, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA 226AT · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear during the approach, which resulted in a gear-up landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA276 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA-226AT · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll. Contributing to the accident was the snow on the runway and the snowbank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA074 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data