Tarot X6
N209LS is a Tarot X6, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, a government body in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tarot
- Model
- X6
- Serial number
- 13935
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1B47D (octal 50332175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01297020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 10201 S Padre Island Dr Ste 318
Corpus Christi, TX 78418-4434
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.
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The public federal record on N209LS, 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 Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, a government body, certificate issued June 14, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. 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 13935 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N209LS according to the deregistered file. [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 N209LS: Accident on November 11, 2007 at Sugar Land, TX: no 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: Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV · operated under 091
The collapsed of the nose landing gear due to shimmy as the result of the improper installation of the nose landing gear upper torque arm pin by the flight crew during the preflight inspection of the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08LA030 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