Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK
N871NA is a Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines. It is unmanned. It is registered to NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body in Edwards, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop Grumman (United States)FAA spelling: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP
- Model
- YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK
- Serial number
- 95-2001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABFB3A (octal 52775472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01051643
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center
- 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
- Attn: James e Coleman III
PO Box 273
Edwards, CA 93523-0273
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 N871NA links to the rest of the register
- Northrop Grumman 5 aircraft on the register
- NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center 29 aircraft in the fleet
- Edwards, CA 38 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N871NA.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N871NA, 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 NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body, certificate issued May 30, 2014, expires May 31, 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 95-2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N871NA 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 N871NA. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data