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N153KS

DJI MAVIC M3T

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAgricultural dronesElectricUtah

N153KS is a DJI MAVIC M3T, 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
DJI (China)
Model
MAVIC M3T
Serial number
1581F5FJD233V00D659Q
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0D646 (octal 50153106)

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 18, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01413000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Utah University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
351 W University Blvd
Cedar City, UT 84720-2415
Learn to fly in N153KS with Southern Utah University:

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.

Connections how N153KS links to the rest of the register

Design
  • DJI 7,014 aircraft on the register
Owner
Place

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N153KS.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N153KS, 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 Southern Utah University, a government body, certificate issued July 18, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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 1581F5FJD233V00D659Q for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N153KS according to the deregistered file. [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 N153KS. 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 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