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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Sikorsky X-49A
N40VT is a Sikorsky X-49A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Piasecki Aircraft CORP, a corporation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated June 14, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- X-49A
- Serial number
- 163283
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-401C · 1880 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A4AC35 (octal 51126065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2025
- 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 · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 14, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00042199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piasecki Aircraft CORP
- 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
- 110 e Stewart Huston Dr
Coatesville, PA 19320-1646
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N40VT links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky 824 aircraft on the register
- General Electric T700-GE-401C 1 aircraft with this engine series · 1880 hp
- Piasecki Aircraft CORP 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Coatesville, PA 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Chester County G O Carlson · MQS
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N40VT.json.
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The public federal record on N40VT, 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 Piasecki Aircraft CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated June 14, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40VT according to the deregistered file. [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 N40VT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data