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A Kratos MQM-178, the same model family as N605XS
A Kratos MQM-178 like this one, not N605XS itself. Photo: U.S. Army 94AAMDC by Maj. Nicholas Chopp, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Drone · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N605XS

Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDefense dronesOklahoma
Records check, free: 1 to understand, 4 clear

N605XS is a Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It is unmanned. It is registered to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Kratos (United States)
FAA spelling: KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS
Model
MQM 178 FIREJET · all MQM 178 FIREJETs and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Kratos MQM-178 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
S26004
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (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
A7DBF0 (octal 51755760)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 14, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 14, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01550034

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems 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
7501 SW 29Th St Ste 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73179-5214

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.

Connections how N605XS links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N605XS, 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 Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 14, 2026, expires July 31, 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 S26004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N605XS according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N605XS. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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.

Request the full report for N605XSWhat the full report adds

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data