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N7245D

DJI PHANTOM 3 PROFESSION

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAgricultural dronesElectricSouth Carolina

N7245D is a DJI PHANTOM 3 PROFESSION, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to State of South Carolina, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
DJI (China)
Model
PHANTOM 3 PROFESSION · all PHANTOM 3 PROFESSIONs 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 DJI PHANTOM 3 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
P76DCF26011023
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A9B573 (octal 52332563)

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 23, 2016
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01214460

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
State of South Carolina
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 21707
Columbia, SC 29221-1707
Co-owners
South Carolina Forestry Commission

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

1997-01-13Piper PA-22-150 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N7245D links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N7245D.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N7245D, 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 State of South Carolina, a government body, certificate issued July 23, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. 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 P76DCF26011023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7245D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 225071, cancelled January 13, 1997). 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 N7245D: Accident on August 7, 1996 at Flushing, MI: 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

CHI96LA276Accident on August 7, 1996 at Flushing, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 22-5071

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-22 · operated under 091

fuel exhaustion caused by the failure of the pilot to select a fuel tank with fuel remaining.

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