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N401BN

Latitude Engineering HQ-40

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N401BN is a Latitude Engineering HQ-40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It is unmanned. It is registered to Latitude Engineering LLC, an LLC in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated August 24, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Latitude Engineering (United States)
FAA spelling: LATITUDE ENGINEERING LLC
Model
HQ-40
Serial number
0005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Honda GX-35 · 1 hp
Seats
0
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A4B07E (octal 51130176)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2015
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · August 24, 2017
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01184432

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Latitude Engineering LLC
Type
LLC
Address
744 S Euclid Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719-6626

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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 N401BN, 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 Latitude Engineering LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated August 24, 2017, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N401BN 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 N401BN. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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