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N53GR

Yamaha Motor FAZER SAR

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N53GR is a Yamaha Motor FAZER SAR, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It is unmanned. It is registered to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation in Cypress, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Yamaha Motor (Japan)
FAA spelling: YAMAHA MOTOR CO LTD
Model
FAZER SAR
Serial number
1596F351901936428923
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A6AEBA (octal 51527272)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · December 23, 2024
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01301470

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Yamaha Motor CORP USA
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
6555 Katella Ave
Cypress, CA 90630-5101

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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N53GR, 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 Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued July 1, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 23, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1596F351901936428923 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N53GR 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N53GR: Accident on August 29, 2023 at Reno, NV: 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

WPR23LA330Accident on August 29, 2023 at Reno, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: L36-2-000113

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Yamaha Fazer SAR · operated under 091

The operator’s incorrect input into the ground station controller, resulting in a loss of control during flight and subsequent impact with terrain.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA330 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