Northrop 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop Grumman (United States)FAA spelling: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP
- Model
- R03
- Serial number
- 00001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A67F78 (octal 51477570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Crew training; Market survey · October 27, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01276088
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northrop Grumman Systems CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Hornet Way
El Segundo, CA 90245-2804
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.
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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 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