Martin UAV (Shield AI) VBAT
N461VA 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 March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated April 2, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) (United States)FAA spelling: MARTIN UAV
- Model
- VBAT · all VBATs and related versions
- Serial number
- 061
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Suter TOA 288 · 24 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A59F2E (octal 51317456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · April 2, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01386005
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northrop Grumman
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4067 Enterprise Way
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635-2273
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N461VA, 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 March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated April 2, 2024, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N461VA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A310-222 (serial 367, cancelled January 10, 2017). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N461VA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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