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N461AA

Anduril Industries BARRACUDA 500

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N461AA is an Anduril Industries BARRACUDA 500, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. 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
BARRACUDA 500 · all BARRACUDA 500s and related versions
Serial number
008
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbojet, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A59D53 (octal 51316523)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
June 9, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01501916

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

2013-01-07Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N461AA, 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 Anduril Industries INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. 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 008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N461AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49566, cancelled January 7, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N461AA: Accident on April 17, 2010 at Chicago, IL: serious injuries. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN10LA220Accident on April 17, 2010 at Chicago, IL: serious injuries.serial on NTSB record: 49566

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · operated under 121

The flight attendant's loss of balance resulting in a fall and a broken wrist.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10LA220 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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