XAG V40
N231WD is a XAG V40, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Temecula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- XAG (China)
- Model
- V40 · all V40s and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. An agricultural drone: carbon-fibre tube arms on a cast aluminium centre, with composite tanks. This is how the XAG V40 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 810222743XK5
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A20E2F (octal 50407057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01397530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Layfield Briana
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 38919 Mesa Rd
Temecula, CA 92592-8557
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 1
Connections how N231WD links to the rest of the register
- XAG V40 15 registered
- XAG 1,027 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Temecula, CA 159 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N231WD.json.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N231WD, 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 Layfield Briana, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2023, expires April 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 810222743XK5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N231WD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 250765, cancelled August 31, 1995). 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 N231WD: Accident on May 12, 1994 at Ventura, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Mooney M20K · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE FLIGHT CREW TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC), DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE FIRST PILOT'S OVERCONFIDENCE IN HIS ABILITY TO ASSURE CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE FROM THE RIGHT SEAT BY REFERENCE TO THE INSTRUMENTS LOCATED IN FRONT OF THE LEFT SEAT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data