General Atomics UHK97000-15
N343HK is a General Atomics UHK97000-15, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2015. It is unmanned. It is registered to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation in Poway, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated November 6, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Atomics (United States)FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
- Model
- UHK97000-15 · all UHK97000-15s 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. A large military drone with a composite airframe. This is how the General Atomics UHK97000 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
- FC343
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Honeywell TPE331-SER · 2650 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A3C92C (octal 50744454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- 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 · November 6, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01188179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems 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
- 14200 Kirkham Way
Poway, CA 92064-7103
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 N343HK links to the rest of the register
- General Atomics UHK97000 11 registered
- General Atomics 64 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell TPE331-series 27 aircraft with this engine series · 2650 hp
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC 43 aircraft in the fleet
- Poway, CA 115 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TPE331-series 48 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N343HK.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N343HK, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 14, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 6, 2024, 9 years after the 2015 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 FC343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N343HK 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 N343HK. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data