Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un VA 001
N246VU is a Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un VA 001, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It is unmanned. It is registered to Vu Holdings LLC, an LLC in Hollywood, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated August 6, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un
- Model
- VA 001
- Serial number
- 18656A26444
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A24837 (octal 50444067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · August 6, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01348478
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vu Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 43960 Airport View Dr
Hollywood, MD 20636-3105 - Co-owners
- Vanilla Unmanned
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N246VU, 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 Vu Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 20, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18656A26444 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N246VU 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]
1 NTSB record under N246VU: Accident on August 20, 2025 at Ninilchik, AK: 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: Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un VA 001 · operated under PUBU
On August 20, 2025, at about 0632 Alaska daylight time, a Platform Aerospace VA 001 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), N246VU, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident on a beachside cliff near Ninilchik, Alaska. The aircraft was unmanned. The aircraft was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations as a Public Use Armed Forces Aircraft on a Certificate of Authorization (COA) Waiver. According to the operator, the airplane was returning to Kenai Municipal Airport in Kenai Alaska after a 72-hour continuous flight to Shemya Island. While flying over open water at an alti…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data