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N6003V

Griffon Aerospace VALIANT

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDefense dronesElectricAlabama

N6003V is a Griffon Aerospace VALIANT, an aircraft of a type the FAA lists as "other" powered by electric motors. It is unmanned. It is registered to Griffon Aerospace, a corporation in Madison, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Griffon Aerospace (United States)
Model
VALIANT
Serial number
072-010003
Type
OtherFAA type of aircraft code O (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, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A7CA14 (octal 51745024)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 3, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 3, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01432374

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Griffon Aerospace
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
106 Commerce Cir
Madison, AL 35758-1864

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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2012-08-30Beech 76 · Revoked, canceled

Connections how N6003V links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Madison, AL 107 aircraft registered in this town
  • Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6003V.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N6003V, 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 Griffon Aerospace, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. 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 072-010003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6003V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 76 (serial ME-128, cancelled August 30, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6003V: Accident on June 8, 1992 at Sherman, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW92LA154Accident on June 8, 1992 at Sherman, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: ME-128

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 76 · operated under 091

THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT'S DELAYED REMEDIAL ACTION, IMPROPER CONFIGURATION, AND INADVERTENT STALL.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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