Sparkcognition Inc SAPHIRA 1.5
N882WS is a Sparkcognition Inc SAPHIRA 1.5, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings), built in 2020. It is unmanned. It is registered to Sparkcognition INC, a corporation in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated May 19, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sparkcognition Inc
- Model
- SAPHIRA 1.5
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 5 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AC2748 (octal 53023510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · May 19, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01311164
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sparkcognition INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4030 W Braker Ln Ste 500
Austin, TX 78759-5337
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N882WS, 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 Sparkcognition INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated May 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N882WS 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]
1 NTSB record under N882WS: Accident on December 28, 1998 at North Las Vegas, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 TR182 · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot-in-command of the other aircraft to see and avoid the stationary Cessna TR182.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data