Joby 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
Aircraft
- Maker
- Joby Aviation (United States)FAA spelling: JOBY AERO INC
- Model
- JAS4-1
- Serial number
- 00007
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A6E038 (octal 51560070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition · August 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01436542
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
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 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