Hylio HYL-150
N3853H is a Hylio HYL-150, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Centerville, South Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hylio (United States)FAA spelling: HYLIO INC
- Model
- HYL-150 · all HYL-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17906110218
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A470A6 (octal 51070246)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01487052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30437 University Rd
Centerville, SD 57014-6536
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3853H, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 17906110218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3853H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-CD (serial 4554, cancelled November 22, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3853H. 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 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