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N1280, a DJI AGRAS T50
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Drone · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N1280

DJI AGRAS T50

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAgricultural dronesElectricSouth Dakota
Records check, free: 2 to understand, 3 clear

N1280 is a DJI AGRAS T50, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to Roger Puterbaugh LLC, an LLC in Cavour, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. 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 T50 · all AGRAS T50s and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the DJI AGRAS T50 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
63YBM5K002004B
Type
Hybrid liftFAA type of aircraft code H (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
A073C2 (octal 50071702)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 25, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 25, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01493171

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Roger Puterbaugh 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
21696 409Th Ave
Cavour, SD 57324-7634

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 3

2019-09-06Precision Hawk HAWKEYE MKIII LANCAS · Registration expired, pending cancellation
2009-06-30Federal XPT-1 · Registration certificate revoked
—Curtiss JN4D · Valid registration

Connections how N1280 links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Cavour, SD 6 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
Record
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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1280.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1280, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Roger Puterbaugh LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 25, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 63YBM5K002004B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1280 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Precision Hawk HAWKEYE MKIII LANCAS (serial 001104-5, cancelled September 6, 2019); Federal XPT-1 (serial 1, cancelled June 30, 2009); Curtiss JN4D (serial I-491, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1280. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data