Amazon Prime Air MK30
N159PA is an Amazon Prime Air MK30, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 19, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Amazon Prime Air (United States)FAA spelling: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
- Model
- MK30 · all MK30s 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. This is how the Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone 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
- 1786501008
- 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, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0ECE4 (octal 50166344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 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 19, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01409691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Amazon.Com Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Attn: Legal Department
410 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109-5210
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 N159PA links to the rest of the register
- Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone 821 registered
- Amazon Prime Air 821 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Amazon.Com Services LLC 785 aircraft in the fleet
- Seattle, WA 1,558 aircraft registered in this town
- Boeing Fld/King County International · BFI
- Seattle-Tacoma International · SEA
- Kenmore Air Seaplane Base · W55
- Seattle Seaplanes · 0W0
- Washington 10,572 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N159PA.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N159PA, 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 Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 20, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 19, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1786501008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Amazon Logistics Inc MK27 (serial 027B-000604, cancelled October 20, 2021); Convair 240-27 (serial 51-5168, cancelled January 6, 2003). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N159PA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data