Shield AI V-BAT
N517WV is a Shield AI V-BAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Shield Ai INC, a corporation in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shield AI (United States)FAA spelling: SHIELD AI INC
- Model
- V-BAT · all V-BATs and related versions
- Serial number
- VB-200157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A67D78 (octal 51476570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01530618
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shield Ai INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 16240 Gateway Path Ste 100
Frisco, TX 75033-3936
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N517WV, 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 Shield Ai INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VB-200157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N517WV 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 N517WV. 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