Hylio AG 230
N8596T is a Hylio AG 230, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Tennessee Valley Authority, a government body in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hylio (United States)FAA spelling: HYLIO INC
- Model
- AG 230 · all AG 230s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17906100407
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABCC03 (octal 52746003)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01505483
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4600 N Access Rd Bldg G1
Chattanooga, TN 37415
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 N8596T, 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 Tennessee Valley Authority, a government body, certificate issued July 5, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. 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 17906100407 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8596T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182C (serial 52496, cancelled March 16, 1989). 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 N8596T: Accident on August 25, 1983 at New Salem, MA: 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 182C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC83LA225 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