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A Embraer EMB 312, the same model family as N459VK
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N459VK

Embraer EMB 312F

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N459VK is an Embraer EMB 312F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Valkyrie Aero LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Embraer
Model
EMB 312F · all EMB 312Fs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Embraer EMB 312 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
459
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A59570 (octal 51312560)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 4, 2022
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
March 21, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01145515

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Valkyrie Aero LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4562 e Mallory Cir Ste 104
Mesa, AZ 85215-1810

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.

Connections how N459VK links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
  • Falcon Field · FFZ
  • Arizona 8,436 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N459VK, 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 Valkyrie Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 4, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N459VK 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 N459VK. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data