Martin UAV (Shield AI) VBAT
N443VA is a Martin UAV (Shield AI) VBAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2022. It is unmanned. It is registered to Northrop Grumman, a corporation in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated March 11, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) (United States)FAA spelling: MARTIN UAV
- Model
- VBAT · all VBATs and related versions
- Serial number
- 043
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Suter TOA 288 · 24 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A5579E (octal 51253636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · March 11, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01386003
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northrop Grumman
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4067 Enterprise Way
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635-2273
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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 N443VA, 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 Northrop Grumman, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 11, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N443VA 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]
1 NTSB record under N443VA: Accident on April 8, 2025 at Douglas, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Martin UAV VBAT · operated under 091
The malfunction of the throttle servo which resulted in the complete loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA135 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data