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N549JX

Joby Aviation JAS4-1

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N549JX is a Joby Aviation JAS4-1, an aircraft of a type the FAA lists as "other" powered by electric motors. It is registered to Joby Aero INC DBA, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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
00103
Type
Other
Power
Electric, 6 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6FA39 (octal 51575071)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 6, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 6, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01547776

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Joby Aero INC DBA
Type
Corporation
Address
333 Encinal St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2132
Co-owners
Joby

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 1

2026-09-28Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N549JX, 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 Joby Aero INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 2026, expires September 30, 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 00103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N549JX according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 28, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N549JX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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