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N1901S

Trimble Navigation Ltd UX5

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectricMontana

N1901S is a Trimble Navigation Ltd UX5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors. It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Lambert, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Trimble Navigation Ltd
Model
UX5
Serial number
2193
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
ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A16AB7 (octal 50265267)

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 28, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01200350

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meyer Roger W DBA
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 176
Lambert, MT 59243-0176
Co-owners
Montana Land and Aerial Surveys

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

1999-10-27Cessna 172N · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Connections how N1901S links to the rest of the register

Design
Place
  • Lambert, MT 12 aircraft registered in this town
  • Montana 6,037 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1901S.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N1901S, 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 Meyer Roger W DBA, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. 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 2193 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1901S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17267660, cancelled October 27, 1999). 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 N1901S: Accident on November 7, 1998 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

MIA99LA030Accident on November 7, 1998 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17267660

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091

The failure of the pilot-in-command to note that the flaps did not retract while the pilot-rated student performed a touch-and-go landing on a 6,001 foot-long runway. Factors in the accident were the total failure of the flap system for undetermined reasons and the operation of the airplane in an overgross weight condition by the pilot-in-command (CFI).

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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