Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET
N224BK is a Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated May 21, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kratos (United States)FAA spelling: KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS
- Model
- MQM 178 FIREJET · all MQM 178 FIREJETs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6259038-1-333
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · Jetcat C81 · 81 lb thrust
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A1F000 (octal 50370000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · May 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01426498
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7501 SW 29Th St Ste 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73179-5214
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N224BK, 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 Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 2, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated May 21, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6259038-1-333 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N224BK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kirk William W MINICOUPE (serial MC224, cancelled May 20, 2015). 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 N224BK. 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 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