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A Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone, the same model family as N285PA
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Drone · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N285PA

Amazon Prime Air MK30

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelivery and cargo dronesElectricWashington

N285PA is an Amazon Prime Air MK30, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated July 14, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Amazon Prime Air (United States)
FAA spelling: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC
Model
MK30 · all MK30s 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 Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone 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
1786501010
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 6 motors
Seats
0
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A2E1D4 (octal 50560724)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 13, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 13, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 14, 2025
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01431101

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Amazon.Com Services LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
Attn: Legal Department
410 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109-5210

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 3

2022-07-23Amazon Logistics Inc MK27 · Valid registration
2014-11-14Diamond Aircraft DA 42 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
2007-05-14Piper PA-28R-201 · exported to Denmark · Valid registration

Connections how N285PA links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N285PA.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N285PA, 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 Amazon.Com Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 13, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated July 14, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1786501010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N285PA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Amazon Logistics Inc MK27 (serial 000395, cancelled July 23, 2022); Diamond Aircraft DA 42 (serial 42.108, cancelled November 14, 2014); Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 2844064, cancelled May 14, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N285PA. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data