Shield AI V-BAT
N2059S 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 September 18, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. 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-100152
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1A83A (octal 50324072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01421151
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2059S, 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 Shield Ai INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 18, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. 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 VB-100152 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2059S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Textron Aviation Inc 172S (serial 172S12047, cancelled September 6, 2017); Cessna 208B (serial 208B2203, cancelled July 15, 2010); Cessna T210L (serial 21061026, cancelled July 28, 2006). 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]
1 NTSB record under N2059S: Accident on August 31, 1996 at Globe, AZ: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T210L · operated under 091
fuel starvation due to the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and improper fuel tank selection.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA323 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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