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N242HV

Kitty Hawk HEAVISIDE 2

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N242HV is a Kitty Hawk HEAVISIDE 2, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors. It is registered to Kitty Hawk CORP, a corporation in Palo Alto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Kitty Hawk (United States)
FAA spelling: KITTY HAWK CORP
Model
HEAVISIDE 2
Serial number
H2.2-012
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Electric, 8 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A23830 (octal 50434060)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 1, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01324078

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kitty Hawk CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
821 San Antonio Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4618

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N242HV, 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 Kitty Hawk CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. 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 H2.2-012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N242HV 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 N242HV. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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