Teledyne FLIR SIRAS
N1521S is a Teledyne FLIR SIRAS, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Southern Utah University, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Teledyne FLIR (United States)
- Model
- SIRAS
- Serial number
- 1836FF1E01L230500037
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 10 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D429 (octal 50152051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01413018
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Utah University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 351 W University Blvd
Cedar City, UT 84720-2415
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1521S, 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 Southern Utah University, a government body, certificate issued July 18, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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 1836FF1E01L230500037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1521S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech P35 (serial D-6963, cancelled May 12, 2015). 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 N1521S: Accident on February 27, 2010 at Edgewater, MD: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Beech P35 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed while on approach, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's likely impairment due to back pain, symptoms of opiate withdrawal, or both.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10FA154 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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