General Atomics UBC97000-22
N555TN is a General Atomics UBC97000-22, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2025. It is unmanned. It is registered to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation in Poway, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 5, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Atomics (United States)FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
- Model
- UBC97000-22 · all UBC97000-22s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA-6-1615
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Honeywell TPE331-10 SER · 940 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A713B4 (octal 51611664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · February 5, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01513564
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14200 Kirkham Way
Poway, CA 92064-7103
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N555TN, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 5, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA-6-1615 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N555TN was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Easterwood Mark W RV-6A (serial 23623, cancelled February 6, 2017); Gettings Albert H GETTINGS P-47 (serial 1, cancelled June 19, 1990). 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]
1 NTSB record under N555TN: Accident on September 7, 2015 at Rome, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Easterwood Mark W RV 6A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and fuel planning, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15LA344 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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