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A DJI PHANTOM 3, the same model family as N321JL
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Drone · FAA record as of November 4, 2026
N321JL

DJI PHANTOM 3 ADVANCED

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAgricultural dronesElectricFlorida
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N321JL is a DJI PHANTOM 3 ADVANCED, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Blue Skies Ahead INC, a corporation in Merritt Island, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
DJI (China)
Model
PHANTOM 3 ADVANCED · all PHANTOM 3 ADVANCEDs 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 DJI PHANTOM 3 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
P76DCH18A10643
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, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A372DA (octal 50671332)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 5, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01193566

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Skies Ahead 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
1665 Morningside Dr
Merritt Island, FL 32952-5939

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.

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The public federal record on N321JL, 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 Blue Skies Ahead INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. 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 P76DCH18A10643 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N321JL 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N321JL: Accident on May 17, 1997 at Madisonville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

IAD97LA078Accident on May 17, 1997 at Madisonville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 27-0162

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20M · operated under 091

Failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, and inadequate supervision of the CFI, which resulted in a stall and subsequent hard landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data