Latitude Engineering HQ-40
N403BN is a Latitude Engineering HQ-40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2016. It is unmanned. It is registered to Latitude Engineering LLC, an LLC in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. 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
- 0007
- 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 · Power 4 Fl B29I · 2 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A4B7EC (octal 51133754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 24, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01204364
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Latitude Engineering LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 744 S Euclid Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719-6626
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N403BN links to the rest of the register
- Latitude Engineering 11 aircraft on the register
- Power 4 Fl B29I 2 aircraft with this engine series · 2 hp
- Latitude Engineering LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Tucson, AZ 737 aircraft registered in this town
- Ryan Field · RYN
- Tucson International · TUS
- Arizona 8,418 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N403BN.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N403BN, 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 Latitude Engineering LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 1, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated August 24, 2017, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N403BN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-227 (serial 20394, cancelled February 20, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N403BN. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data