Freefly Systems ALTA X
N842LD is a Freefly Systems ALTA X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Leidos, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Freefly Systems (United States)
- Model
- ALTA X · all ALTA Xs and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Freefly Systems ALTA X 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
- 1787F06BM24020011772
- 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
- AB8845 (octal 52704105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01559977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leidos
- 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
- 7150 Campus Dr Ste 300
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-3180
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.
Connections how N842LD links to the rest of the register
- Freefly Systems ALTA X 32 registered
- Freefly Systems 50 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Leidos 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Colorado Springs, CO 556 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N842LD.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N842LD, 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 Leidos, a corporation, certificate issued September 17, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. 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 1787F06BM24020011772 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N842LD 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 N842LD. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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