Amazon Prime Air MK30
N228PA is an Amazon Prime Air MK30, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated September 5, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Amazon Prime Air (United States)FAA spelling: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
- Model
- MK30 · all MK30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 178650100N
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A1FFFF (octal 50377777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · September 5, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01409697
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Amazon.Com Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Attn: Legal Department
410 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
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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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N228PA, 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 Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 16, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated September 5, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178650100N for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N228PA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Amazon Logistics Inc MK27 (serial 027B-000618, cancelled October 20, 2021); Cessna 208B (serial 208B0049, cancelled October 27, 2004); Cessna 208 (serial 20800246, cancelled August 2, 2000). 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 N228PA: Accident on March 15, 2002 at Alma, WI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 135
The pilot not removing the ice contamination from the airplane prior to departure and the pilot intentionally flying into known severe icing conditions, resulting in the aircraft not being able to maintain altitude/clearance from the terrain. Factors to the accident included the icing conditions and the trees encountered during the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02FA093 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