Sparkcognition Inc GRASSHOPPER
N8849S is a Sparkcognition Inc GRASSHOPPER, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Sparkcognition INC, a corporation in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2020 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
- Sparkcognition Inc
- Model
- GRASSHOPPER
- Serial number
- 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, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC3055 (octal 53030125)
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 19, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sparkcognition INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4030 W Braker Ln Ste 500
Austin, TX 78759-5337
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 N8849S links to the rest of the register
- Sparkcognition Inc 6 aircraft on the register
- Sparkcognition INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Austin, TX 791 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Executive · EDC
- Austin-Bergstrom International · AUS
- San Marcos Regional · HYI
- Texas 29,960 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8849S.json.
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The public federal record on N8849S, 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 May 19, 2020, 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 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8849S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15062149, cancelled September 19, 2013). 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 N8849S. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data