General Atomics UBC97000-16
N480SG is a General Atomics UBC97000-16, 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 12, 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 January 21, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Atomics (United States)FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
- Model
- UBC97000-16 · all UBC97000-16s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA-6-1635
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A5EA30 (octal 51365060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · January 21, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01462429
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N480SG, 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 General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated January 21, 2026, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA-6-1635 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N480SG 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 N480SG. 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