DJI PHANTOM 3 PROFESSION
N738VP is a DJI PHANTOM 3 PROFESSION, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Plant Sciences INC, a corporation in Watsonville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2016 and expires on May 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
- Serial number
- P76DCG31016675
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9EAAC (octal 52365254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01215808
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plant Sciences INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 342 Green Valley Rd
Watsonville, CA 95076-1305
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N738VP, 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 Plant Sciences INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. 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 P76DCG31016675 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N738VP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17270274, cancelled June 13, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N738VP: Accident on July 17, 1991 at Columbus, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT WHICH RESULTED IN A GROUND COLLISION WITH A PARKED AIRCRAFT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO TAXI ON THE TAXIWAY CENTERLINE AND NIGHT CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91LA186 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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