Platform Aerospace VANILLA
N616VU is a Platform Aerospace VANILLA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It is unmanned. It is registered to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation in North Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated October 22, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Platform Aerospace (United States)FAA spelling: PLATFORM SYS INC DBA PLAT AERO
- Model
- VANILLA · all VANILLAs and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Platform Aerospace VANILLA 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
- 016-VA001
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A806F6 (octal 52003366)
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 10, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9B9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 22, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01463428
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee
- 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
- 39 e Eagle Ridge Dr Ste 201
North Salt Lake, UT 84054-2533
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 N616VU links to the rest of the register
- Platform Aerospace VANILLA 26 registered
- Platform Aerospace 26 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee 1,377 aircraft in the fleet
- North Salt Lake, UT 1,663 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N616VU.json.
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The public federal record on N616VU, 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 Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued July 10, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated October 22, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 016-VA001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N616VU 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 N616VU. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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