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N8529Y

DJI PHANTOM 4 PRO+

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N8529Y is a DJI PHANTOM 4 PRO+, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. 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 4 PRO+ · all PHANTOM 4 PRO+s and related versions
Serial number
89CEBABA20223
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Electric, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABB270 (octal 52731160)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 13, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01277851

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cruser James T
Type
Individual
Address
85 Gettysburg Square Rd Apt 265
Fort Thomas, KY 41075-4098

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

1980-10-10Piper PA-30 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8529Y, 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 Cruser James T, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. 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 89CEBABA20223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8529Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30-1690, cancelled October 10, 1980). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8529Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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