Leigh Aerosystems Corp E100
N1224E is a Leigh Aerosystems Corp E100, a hybrid-lift aircraft with a two-stroke engine (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Northrop Grumman Systems CORP, a corporation in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated September 16, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Leigh Aerosystems Corp
- Model
- E100
- Serial number
- AV2
- Type
- Hybrid liftFAA type of aircraft code H (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Desert Acf DA-215 · 20 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A05E09 (octal 50057011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 9A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01478550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northrop Grumman Systems CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4067 Enterprise Way
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635-2273
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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 N1224E links to the rest of the register
- Leigh Aerosystems Corp 5 aircraft on the register
- Desert Acf DA-215 2 aircraft with this engine series · 20 hp
- Northrop Grumman Systems CORP 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Sierra Vista, AZ 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,436 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1224E.json.
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The public federal record on N1224E, 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 Northrop Grumman Systems CORP, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated September 16, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AV2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1224E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 7GCAA (serial 346-77, cancelled December 4, 2012); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-4782, cancelled October 29, 1965). 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 N1224E: Accident on June 26, 2026 at Douglas, AZ: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Leigh Aerosystems CORP E100 · operated under 091
Degraded engine and propeller performance during hot and high-density altitude operations, which resulted in a high descent rate and subsequent hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data