Kratos MQM-178
N887RZ is a Kratos MQM-178, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2019. It is unmanned. It is registered to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated February 1, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kratos (United States)FAA spelling: KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS
- Model
- MQM-178 · all MQM-178s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5324682-1-200
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Jetcat C81 · 81 lb thrust
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- AC3965 (octal 53034545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · February 1, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01316766
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7501 SW 29Th St Ste 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73179-5214
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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 N887RZ, 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 Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 1, 2024, 5 years after the 2019 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5324682-1-200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N887RZ 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 N887RZ. 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 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