Troy Built Models TBM UAV-3
N150PL is a Troy Built Models TBM UAV-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to State Of Iowa University Of Iowa, a government body in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Troy Built Models
- Model
- TBM UAV-3
- Serial number
- 2016-002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0CB7F (octal 50145577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01220180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State Of Iowa University Of Iowa
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3131 Seamans Ctr
Iowa City, IA 52242-1504 - Co-owners
- Operator Performance Lab (Opl)
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.
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The public federal record on N150PL, 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 State Of Iowa University Of Iowa, a government body, certificate issued September 16, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. 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 2016-002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N150PL according to the deregistered file. [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 N150PL: Accident on May 30, 2001 at Alexander, AK: 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: De Havilland DHC-2 · operated under 091
The instructor pilot's inadequate supervision of the flight. Factors in the accident were the dual student's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, and the presence of a sand bar in the landing area.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data