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A Kratos MQM-178, the same model family as N154RK
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Drone · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N154RK

Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDefense dronesOklahoma

N154RK is a Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 13, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Kratos (United States)
FAA spelling: KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS
Model
MQM 178 FIREJET · all MQM 178 FIREJETs and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Kratos MQM-178 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
6215886-1-328
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jetcat C81 · 81 lb thrust
Seats
0
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A0DA8C (octal 50155214)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 22, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 22, 2023
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 · February 13, 2024
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01413098

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems 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
7501 SW 29Th St Ste 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73179-5214

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 N154RK links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Jetcat C81 4 aircraft with this engine series · 81 lb thrust
Owner
Place

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N154RK.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N154RK, 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 Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 13, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6215886-1-328 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N154RK 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 N154RK. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data