Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G
N287TS is a Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It is unmanned. It is registered to AAI Corporation DBA, a corporation in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated January 30, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Systems (AAI) (United States)FAA spelling: AAI CORP DBA TEXTRON SYSTS UNM
- Model
- AEROSONDE MK 4.7G · all AEROSONDE MK 4.7Gs and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G 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
- 287
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A2E9B6 (octal 50564666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 15, 2026
- 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, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9B9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 30, 2026
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01173112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- AAI Corporation DBA
- 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
- 124 Industry Ln
Hunt Valley, MD 21030-3342 - Co-owners
- Textron Systems Unmanned Systems
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.
Connections how N287TS links to the rest of the register
- Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G 16 registered
- Textron Systems (AAI) 22 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AAI Corporation DBA 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hunt Valley, MD 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N287TS.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N287TS, 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 AAI Corporation DBA, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 30, 2026, 9 years after the 2017 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 287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N287TS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N287TS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data