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N184VB

Shield AI V-BAT

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N184VB is a Shield AI V-BAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Shield Ai INC, a corporation in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Shield AI (United States)
FAA spelling: SHIELD AI INC
Model
V-BAT · all V-BATs and related versions
Serial number
VB-100260
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A15165 (octal 50250545)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 26, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01465053

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shield Ai INC
Type
Corporation
Address
16240 Gateway Path Ste 100
Frisco, TX 75033-3936

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

1982-12-15Beech 58 · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N184VB, 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 Shield Ai INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. 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 VB-100260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N184VB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1076, cancelled December 15, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N184VB: Accident on March 16, 1982 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX82FUJ32Accident on March 16, 1982 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: TW1076

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 58 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82FUJ32 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data