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N239UA

Northern Embedded Solutions Lc PTARMIGAN

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectricAlaska

N239UA is a Northern Embedded Solutions Lc PTARMIGAN, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to University of Alaska Fairbanks, a government body in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Northern Embedded Solutions Lc
Model
PTARMIGAN · all PTARMIGANs and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Northern Embedded Solutions Lc PTARMIGAN 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
PTAR 001
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, 6 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A22BB2 (octal 50425662)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 27, 2016
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01173863

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University of Alaska Fairbanks (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
903 Koyukuk Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99775-0001
Co-owners
Geophysical Institute
Learn to fly in N239UA with University of Alaska Fairbanks:

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 N239UA links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N239UA.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N239UA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to University of Alaska Fairbanks, a government body, certificate issued January 27, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PTAR 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N239UA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N239UA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data