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A Zipline P2 delivery drone, the same model family as N393ZL
A Zipline P2 delivery drone like this one, not N393ZL itself. Photo: Roksenhorn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Drone · FAA record as of October 16, 2026
N393ZL

Zipline P2 ZIP

Assigned, not yet registeredFAA registration status code 2: N-number assigned but not yet registered. All codesDelivery and cargo dronesElectric
Records check, free: 2 to understand, 3 clear

N393ZL is a Zipline P2 ZIP, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Zipline (United States)
FAA spelling: ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC
Model
P2 ZIP · all P2 ZIPs 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 Zipline P2 delivery drone 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
18736P23800
Type
Hybrid liftFAA type of aircraft code H (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, 5 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A49038 (octal 51110070)

Registration

Status
N-number assigned but not yet registeredFAA registration status code 2 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
October 16, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
—
FAA record id
01558174

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
—
Address

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 N393ZL links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N393ZL, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 18736P23800 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N393ZL 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 N393ZL. 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 16, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 16, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 16, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 16, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data