Skydio X10
N4593 is a Skydio X10, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to U S Department Of Energy, a government body in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Skydio (United States)FAA spelling: SKYDIO INC
- Model
- X10 · all X10s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1668BR40EA00NN44
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5964C (octal 51313114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01477656
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- U S Department Of Energy
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008 Ms-6151
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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 N4593, 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 U S Department Of Energy, a government body, certificate issued December 23, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. 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 1668BR40EA00NN44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4593 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-164A (serial 1082, cancelled April 30, 2013). 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 N4593: Accident on May 27, 1993 at Weiner, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 25, 1984 at Chamerlain, SD: 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: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
PARTIAL POWER LOSS DUE TO IMPROPER INSTALLATION OF THE LINKAGE CONTROL BRACKET. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93LA169 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN84LA235 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