Platform Aerospace VANILLA
N617VU 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 Platform Systems INC DBA, a corporation in Hollywood, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated January 10, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Platform Aerospace (United States)FAA spelling: PLATFORM SYS INC DBA PLAT AERO
- Model
- VANILLA · all VANILLAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 017-VA001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A80AAD (octal 52005255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · January 10, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01469853
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Platform Systems INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 43960 Airport View Dr
Hollywood, MD 20636-3105 - Co-owners
- Platform Aerospace
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N617VU, 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 Platform Systems INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued September 19, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated January 10, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 017-VA001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617VU 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 N617VU. 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 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