Centauri Aircraft Company Inc VALKYRIE
N246CA is a Centauri Aircraft Company Inc VALKYRIE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Centauri Aircraft Company INC, a corporation in Emeryville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Centauri Aircraft Company Inc
- Model
- VALKYRIE
- Serial number
- 07
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2467C (octal 50443174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01522509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Centauri Aircraft Company INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1900 Powell St Ste 700
Emeryville, CA 94608-1889
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N246CA, 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 Centauri Aircraft Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 17, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. 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 07 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N246CA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech F90 (serial LA-27, cancelled March 2, 2019); Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.223, cancelled March 30, 2001). 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 N246CA: Accident on February 6, 2017 at Poplar Bluff, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Beech F90 · operated under 091
The pilot’s descent below the minimum descent altitude during a nonprecision approach, which resulted in a tree strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA150 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