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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Dehavilland DH-100 MK 6
N173LA is a Dehavilland DH-100 MK 6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vampire Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DH-100 MK 6
- Serial number
- 696
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1254D (octal 50222515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01576446
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vampire Aviation 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
- 1000 N West St Ste 1501
Wilmington, DE 19801-1001
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
Connections how N173LA links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Vampire Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N173LA.json.
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The public federal record on N173LA, 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 Vampire Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. 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 696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N173LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland VAMPIRE (serial HAL FU 213, cancelled October 5, 2019). 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 N173LA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data