Va Tech Darpa Heavy Lift Team VERTI-GO
N226TV is a Va Tech Darpa Heavy Lift Team VERTI-GO, a hybrid-lift aircraft with a two-stroke engine (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned as a non-type-certificated aircraft, not yet registered". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Va Tech Darpa Heavy Lift Team
- Model
- VERTI-GO
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Hybrid liftFAA type of aircraft code H (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1F908 (octal 50374410)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned as a non-type-certificated aircraft, not yet registeredFAA registration status code 3 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01546837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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.
Connections how N226TV links to the rest of the register
- Va Tech Darpa Heavy Lift Team 1 aircraft on the register
These connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N226TV.json · about the eFlight graph.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N226TV, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned as a non-type-certificated aircraft, not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N226TV 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N226TV. 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 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 7, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data