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N378CV

General Atomics UEA97000-2

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

N378CV is a General Atomics UEA97000-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. 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 October 6, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
General Atomics (United States)
FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
Model
UEA97000-2 · all UEA97000-2s and related versions
Serial number
AF008
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
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A451C9 (octal 51050711)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 6, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 6, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01562541

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 N378CV links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Poway, CA 114 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,549 aircraft registered

These connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N378CV.json · about the eFlight graph.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N378CV, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 6, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. 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 AF008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N378CV 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 N378CV. 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 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 7, 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 7, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data