Honda Research Institute Usa SSM
N241HX is a Honda Research Institute Usa SSM, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated December 11, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Honda Research Institute Usa
- Model
- SSM
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 10 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A2347B (octal 50432173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · December 11, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01450439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Honda Research Institute USA INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 70 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134-1806
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N241HX, 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 Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 30, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated December 11, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N241HX 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 N241HX. 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