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Swissdrones Operating Ag SDO 50 V2
N780PA is a Swissdrones Operating Ag SDO 50 V2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It is unmanned. It is registered to Southern Company Services INC, a corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training; unmanned aircraft, compliance with regulations, dated January 24, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Swissdrones Operating Ag
- Model
- SDO 50 V2
- Serial number
- 45200417
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AA91CC (octal 52510714)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2025
- 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, crew training; Unmanned aircraft, compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 9A9C9E (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 24, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01352122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Company Services INC
- 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
- 3535 Colonnade Pkwy Bin S 280 Ec
Birmingham, AL 35243
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 2
Connections how N780PA links to the rest of the register
- Swissdrones Operating Ag 3 aircraft on the register
- Southern Company Services INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Birmingham, AL 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International · BHM
- Alabama 4,351 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N780PA.json.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N780PA, 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 Southern Company Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 24, 2025, 7 years after the 2018 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45200417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N780PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Altus Intelligence Inc ORC2 (serial ORC2HL0006, cancelled December 11, 2020); Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0480, cancelled March 10, 2008). 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 N780PA: Accident on January 18, 2024 at Antioch, GA: 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: Swissdrones Operating AG SDO 50 V2 · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to a reduction of fuel flow for undetermined reasons. Contributing to the accident was the UAS manufacturer’s lack of instructions for a partial loss of engine power landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data