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N468SG

General Atomics UBC97000-10

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N468SG is a General Atomics UBC97000-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation in Poway, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated November 13, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
General Atomics (United States)
FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
Model
UBC97000-10 · all UBC97000-10s and related versions
Serial number
GA-6-1554
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · Honeywell TPE331-10 SER · 940 hp
Seats
0
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A5B8EA (octal 51334352)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 14, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 14, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · November 13, 2025
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01462434

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC
Type
Corporation
Address
14200 Kirkham Way
Poway, CA 92064-7103

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2011-03-16Beech A36TC · First notice for re-registration or renewal

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The public federal record on N468SG, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 14, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated November 13, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA-6-1554 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N468SG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36TC (serial EA-147, cancelled March 16, 2011). 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 N468SG: Accident on September 26, 2010 at Snook, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CEN10LA559Accident on September 26, 2010 at Snook, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: EA-147

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A36TC · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to recognize the change in wind velocity and his decision to make a downwind takeoff from the grass airstrip, which led to the airplane's degraded climb capability.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10LA559 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