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A Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) JUMP 20, the same model family as N270AV
A Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) JUMP 20 like this one, not N270AV itself. Photo: Efolkestad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Drone · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N270AV

Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) JUMP 20

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDefense dronesCalifornia
Records check, free: 1 to understand, 4 clear

N270AV is an Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) JUMP 20, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a four-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Arcturus UAV INC, a corporation in Petaluma, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) (United States)
FAA spelling: ARCTURUS UAV INC
Model
JUMP 20 · all JUMP 20s 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 Arcturus UAV (AeroVironment) JUMP 20 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
137086_100001
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 5 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A2A690 (octal 50523220)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 22, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 22, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01464407

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arcturus UAV INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1035 N Mcdowell Blvd
Petaluma, CA 94954-1173

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.

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N270AV, 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 Arcturus UAV INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 22, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. 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 137086_100001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N270AV 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 N270AV. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data