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N404UV

Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G

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

N404UV is a Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It is unmanned. It is registered to AAI CORP DBA, a corporation in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated November 25, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Systems (AAI) (United States)
FAA spelling: AAI CORP DBA TEXTRON SYSTS UNM
Model
AEROSONDE MK 4.7G · all AEROSONDE MK 4.7Gs 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 Textron Systems (AAI) AEROSONDE MK 4.7G 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
404
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A4BD53 (octal 51136523)

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 27, 2016
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 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, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9B9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 25, 2024
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01231204

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
AAI CORP DBA
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
Attn: John Fields
124 Industry Ln
Hunt Valley, MD 21030-3342
Co-owners
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems

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 N404UV links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Hunt Valley, MD 32 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N404UV.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N404UV, 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 AAI CORP DBA, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 2024, 7 years after the 2017 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 404 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N404UV 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 N404UV. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data