Anduril Industries SAPPHIRE
N454AA is an Anduril Industries SAPPHIRE, a rotorcraft with a two-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Anduril Industries INC, a corporation in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Anduril Industries (United States)FAA spelling: ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC
- Model
- SAPPHIRE · all SAPPHIREs and related versions
- Serial number
- 513
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 5 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A580F9 (octal 51300371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01497794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anduril Industries INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1400 Anduril
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1548
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N454AA, 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 Anduril Industries INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 513 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N454AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49559, cancelled June 28, 2016). 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]
2 NTSB records under N454AA: Accident on September 28, 2007 at St. Louis, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 2, 2003 at Jamaica, NY: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82) · operated under 121
American Airlines’ maintenance personnel’s use of an inappropriate manual engine start procedure, which led to the uncommanded opening of the left engine air turbine starter valve, and a subsequent left engine fire, which was prolonged by the flight crew’s interruption of an emergency checklist to perform nonessential tasks. Contributing to the accident were deficiencies in American Airlines’ Continuing Analysis and Surveillance System program.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA07MA310 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82 · operated under 121
A fractured nose gear spray deflector due to contact with a tow bar during pushback, which subsequently jammed and prevented nose gear extension during landing. A factor in this accident was the tow operator's failure to detect the damaged spray deflector.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC03FA186 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
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