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Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT
N921WM is a Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2022. It is unmanned. It is registered to Sheild Ai INC, a corporation in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated April 7, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) (United States)FAA spelling: MARTIN UAV LLC
- Model
- V-BAT · all V-BATs and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. This is how the Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- VBP-100007
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Suter TOA 288 · 24 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ACC3E1 (octal 53141741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 9A9B9C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 7, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01345578
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sheild Ai 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
- 16240 Gateway Path Ste 100
Frisco, TX 75033-3936
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 N921WM links to the rest of the register
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT 46 registered
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Suter TOA 288 5 aircraft with this engine series · 24 hp
- Sheild Ai INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Frisco, TX 594 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N921WM.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N921WM, 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 Sheild Ai INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated April 7, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VBP-100007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N921WM 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 N921WM. 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