Airbus Defence And Space Ltd ZEPHYR 8
N179TS is an Airbus Defence And Space Ltd ZEPHYR 8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It is unmanned. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated May 16, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Defence And Space Ltd
- Model
- ZEPHYR 8
- Serial number
- Z8-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A13C56 (octal 50236126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2024
- 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 · May 16, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01326298
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank of Utah Trustee
- 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
- 50 S 200 e Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1617
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 N179TS links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Defence And Space Ltd 1 aircraft on the register
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 1,816 aircraft in the fleet
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,931 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,356 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N179TS.json.
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The public federal record on N179TS, 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 Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued April 17, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2024, 6 years after the 2018 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial Z8-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N179TS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA 42 (serial 42.279, cancelled May 28, 2009). 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 N179TS. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data