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N524UA

Firestorm Labs TEMPEST BETA 2

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N524UA is a Firestorm Labs TEMPEST BETA 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Firestorm Labs INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Firestorm Labs (United States)
FAA spelling: FIRESTORM LABS INC
Model
TEMPEST BETA 2 · all TEMPEST BETA 2s and related versions
Serial number
B2-037
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6998D (octal 51514615)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 11, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01534478

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Firestorm Labs INC
Type
Corporation
Address
9431 Dowdy Dr
San Diego, CA 92126-4480

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2018-03-27Boeing 757-222 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N524UA, 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 Firestorm Labs INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 11, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B2-037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N524UA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 757-222 (serial 24977, cancelled March 27, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N524UA: Accident on February 20, 1996 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC96LA026Accident on February 20, 1996 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 5224

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 757-222 · operated under 121

inadequate visual lookout by the flightcrew of the Delta Boeing 757, N622DL, and their failure to follow procedures and directives by not closely following the ramp marshals' signals.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA026 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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