Unmanned Systems Inc SANDSTORM
N478LU is an Unmanned Systems Inc SANDSTORM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It is unmanned. It is registered to Unmanned Systems INC, a corporation in Henderson, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated April 16, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Unmanned Systems Inc
- Model
- SANDSTORM
- Serial number
- 11-003T
- 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 · Jetcat SPH5 · 11 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5DFDF (octal 51357737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9B9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 16, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01104751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Unmanned Systems INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2709 Cyrano St
Henderson, NV 89044-0303
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N478LU links to the rest of the register
- Unmanned Systems Inc 2 aircraft on the register
- Jetcat SPH5 1 aircraft with this engine series · 11 hp
- Unmanned Systems INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Henderson, NV 418 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,591 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N478LU.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N478LU, 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 Unmanned Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 4, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11-003T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N478LU according to the deregistered file. [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 N478LU. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data