Joby Aviation JAS4-1
N5421A is a Joby Aviation JAS4-1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2022. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated November 5, 2025.
Joby Aviation: Piloted electric air taxi, based in Santa Cruz, California
Aircraft
- Maker
- Joby Aviation (United States)FAA spelling: JOBY AERO INC
- Model
- JAS4-1
- Serial number
- 00005
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A6E1D6 (octal 51560726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · November 5, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01373210
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joby Aero INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 333 Encinal St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2132
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5421A, 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 5, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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 00005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5421A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310B (serial 35621, cancelled November 30, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5421A. 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