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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Northrop Grumman R03
N518DF is a Northrop Grumman R03, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Northrop Grumman Systems CORP, a corporation in El Segundo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; market survey, dated October 27, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop Grumman (United States)FAA spelling: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP
- Model
- R03
- Serial number
- 00001
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A67F78 (octal 51477570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · Research and development; Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 156 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01276088
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northrop Grumman Systems CORP
- 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
- 1 Hornet Way
El Segundo, CA 90245-2804
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N518DF links to the rest of the register
- Northrop Grumman 5 aircraft on the register
- Northrop Grumman Systems CORP 28 aircraft in the fleet
- El Segundo, CA 47 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N518DF, 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 Northrop Grumman Systems CORP, a corporation, certificate issued July 17, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 27, 2021, 3 years after the 2018 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518DF 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 N518DF. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data