Ceres Air C31
N306RL is a Ceres Air C31, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Midwest Air LLC, an LLC in Peebles, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ceres Air (United States)
- Model
- C31 · all C31s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2157854050436
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3371E (octal 50633436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01565207
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midwest Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1 Ryan Rd
Peebles, OH 45660-9083
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 N306RL, 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 Midwest Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 30, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. 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 2157854050436 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N306RL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 2833M, cancelled December 4, 2020). 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 N306RL: Accident on November 15, 2016 at West Chester, PA: no 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 Helicopter Company R22 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's decision to continue the practice autorotation in known gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a hard landing and roll over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA046 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