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N490EL

Electra SACOS DEMONSTRATOR 1

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N490EL is an Electra SACOS DEMONSTRATOR 1, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It is registered to Electra.Aero INC, a corporation in Falls Church, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated August 31, 2022.

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Aircraft

Maker
Electra (United States)
FAA spelling: ELECTRA.AERO.INC
Model
SACOS DEMONSTRATOR 1
Serial number
1
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Electric, 2 motors
Seats
0
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A61087 (octal 51410207)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 9, 2022
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · August 31, 2022
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01364657

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Electra.Aero INC
Type
Corporation
Address
218 N Cherry St
Falls Church, VA 22046-3520

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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 N490EL, 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 Electra.Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated August 31, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N490EL according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N490EL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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