Davis Chip MOSQUITO XE-285
N8421L is a Davis Chip MOSQUITO XE-285, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Apex, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 2, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Davis Chip
- Model
- MOSQUITO XE-285
- Serial number
- 1076
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Inntec 800 · 85 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- INNOVATOR TECHNOLOGIES MOSQUITO XE285
- Transponder code
- AB89CD (octal 52704715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 2, 2016
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01210804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Chip
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8525 Pinefield Rd
Apex, NC 27523-9601
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8421L, 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 Davis Chip, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8421L 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 N8421L. 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