Elroy Air CHAPARRAL C1
N708EA is an Elroy Air CHAPARRAL C1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is registered to Elroy Air INC, a corporation in S San Fran, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Elroy Air: Chaparral hybrid-electric cargo drone
Aircraft
- Maker
- Elroy Air (United States)FAA spelling: ELROY AIR INC
- Model
- CHAPARRAL C1
- Serial number
- C1-002
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A972AB (octal 52271253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01401548
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elroy Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 415 E Grand Ave Ste 201
S San Fran, CA 94080-6208
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
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The public federal record on N708EA, 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 Elroy Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 14, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C1-002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N708EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: DJI PHANTOM 2 VISION + (serial PH645199878, cancelled September 22, 2016). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N708EA. 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