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N1335E

Leigh Aerosystems Corp E100

Valid Arizona

N1335E 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 May 11, 2026 and expires on May 31, 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
AV3
Type
Hybrid lift
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A08962 (octal 50104542)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 11, 2026
Expires
May 31, 2033
Last FAA action
May 11, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · September 16, 2025
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01478551

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Northrop Grumman Systems CORP
Type
Corporation
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

1989-02-03Cessna 172N · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1950-06-08Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1335E, 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 Northrop Grumman Systems CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 11, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated September 16, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AV3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1335E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17270961, cancelled February 3, 1989); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-4896, cancelled June 8, 1950). 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 N1335E. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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