Pyka PELICAN
N1348T is a Pyka PELICAN, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Pyka INC, a corporation in Alameda, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated March 12, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pyka (United States)FAA spelling: PYKA INC
- Model
- PELICAN · all PELICANs 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. An electric crop-spraying aircraft with a composite airframe. This is how the Pyka PELICAN 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
- 16056PS0036
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 3 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A08D8F (octal 50106617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2024
- 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 development; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 12, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01411287
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pyka INC
- 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
- 950 W Tower Ave
Alameda, CA 94501-5049
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 N1348T links to the rest of the register
- Pyka PELICAN 53 registered
- Pyka 72 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pyka INC 71 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 24, 2027
- Alameda, CA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1348T.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1348T, 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 Pyka INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 5, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated March 12, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16056PS0036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1348T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Learjet Inc 45 (serial 2035, cancelled November 18, 2014); Cessna 421C (serial 421C1059, cancelled October 22, 1998). 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 N1348T: Accident on December 28, 1997 at Elkins, WV: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 421C · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to identify an unsafe runway condition and his delay in aborting the takeoff. Contributing was the aircraft's maximum takeoff weight exceeded, and a snow-covered runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data