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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Joby Aviation JAS4-1
N542JX is a Joby Aviation JAS4-1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2024. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated August 19, 2025.
Joby Aviation: Piloted electric air taxi, based in Santa Cruz, California
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 4:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Joby Aviation (United States)FAA spelling: JOBY AERO INC
- Model
- JAS4-1 · all JAS4-1s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A carbon-fibre electric air taxi with six tilting propellers. This is how the Joby Aviation JAS4 eVTOL air taxi family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 00007
- Type
- Hybrid liftFAA type of aircraft code H (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A6E038 (octal 51560070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2024
- 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; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 13 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01436542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joby Aero INC
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N542JX links to the rest of the register
- Joby Aviation JAS4 eVTOL air taxi 10 registered
- Joby Aviation 12 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Joby Aero INC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Cruz, CA 115 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Where N542JX is now · Last seen October 16 at 4:23 pm.
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The public federal record on N542JX, 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 March 28, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated August 19, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N542JX 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 N542JX. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data