DJI SPREADING WINGS S800
N8712Z is a DJI SPREADING WINGS S800, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to University of Alabama In Huntsville, a government body in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- DJI (China)
- Model
- SPREADING WINGS S800
- Serial number
- RC2019-002
- 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, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABFCC3 (octal 52776303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01299049
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University of Alabama In Huntsville (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 301 Sparkman Dr
Huntsville, AL 35899-0001 - Co-owners
- Attn Jerry Hendrix
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
Connections how N8712Z links to the rest of the register
- DJI 7,004 aircraft on the register
- University Of Alabama In Huntsville 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Huntsville, AL 207 aircraft registered in this town
- Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field · HSV
- Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field · MDQ
- Moontown Airport · 3M5
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8712Z.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8712Z, 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 University of Alabama In Huntsville, a government body, certificate issued February 11, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. 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 RC2019-002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8712Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 185-02900, cancelled June 9, 1976). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8712Z. 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