Hylio AG-272
N3038W is a Hylio AG-272, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC, an LLC in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hylio (United States)FAA spelling: HYLIO INC
- Model
- AG-272 · all AG-272s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17906070289
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A32DFC (octal 50626774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01459936
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1427 Abbott St
Salinas, CA 93901-4506
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3038W, 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 Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 18, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. 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 17906070289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3038W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 (serial 1732, cancelled September 20, 2013). 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 N3038W: Accident on October 15, 2009 at La Belle, FL: serious 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: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
The loss of main rotor rpm due to the failure of one or more of the drive belts for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10LA019 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