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N40VT

Sikorsky 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.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
X-49A
Serial number
163283
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-401C · 1880 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A4AC35 (octal 51126065)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · June 14, 2007
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00042199

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Piasecki Aircraft CORP
Type
Corporation
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Piasecki Aircraft CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development, dated June 14, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N40VT 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 N40VT. 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