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N304FS

Insitu (Boeing) FLARES 3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDefense dronesElectricWashington

N304FS is an Insitu (Boeing) FLARES 3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors. It is unmanned. It is registered to Insitu INC, a corporation in Bingen, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Insitu (Boeing) (United States)
FAA spelling: INSITU INC
Model
FLARES 3
Serial number
HTMC-0304
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
ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 16 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A32EBC (octal 50627274)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 5, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 5, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01437521

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Insitu 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
118 e Columbia River Way
Bingen, WA 98605

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 N304FS links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Bingen, WA 54 aircraft registered in this town
  • Washington 10,568 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N304FS.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N304FS, 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 Insitu INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 5, 2024, expires February 28, 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 HTMC-0304 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N304FS 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 N304FS. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data