Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix) BLACKFLY V3
N9288A is a Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix) BLACKFLY V3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor powered by electric motors. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Always Blue Skies INC, a non-citizen corporation in Palo Alto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix): Single-seat personal eVTOL, Palo Alto, California
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pivotal (BlackFly / Helix) (United States)FAA spelling: ALWAYS BLUE SKIES INC
- Model
- BLACKFLY V3
- Serial number
- SN104-0064
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ACDF53 (octal 53157523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01357133
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Always Blue Skies INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 1029 Corporation Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4305
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9288A, 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 Always Blue Skies INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued January 4, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. 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 SN104-0064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9288A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19375, cancelled September 17, 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 N9288A. 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