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N944ZU

Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PRECISION VISION 35X

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAgricultural dronesElectricMississippi

N944ZU is a Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PRECISION VISION 35X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to United States Dept of Agric Agric Research Svc, a government body in Stoneville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Leading Edge Aerial Technologies (United States)
FAA spelling: LEADING EDGE AERIAL TECH INC
Model
PRECISION VISION 35X · all PRECISION VISION 35Xs and related versions
Built of
carbon fibre and plastic
A drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. An agricultural drone: carbon-fibre tube arms on a cast aluminium centre, with composite tanks. This is how the Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PRECISION VISION 35X 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
11209
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, 6 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD1E56 (octal 53217126)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 16, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01374492

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Dept of Agric Agric Research Svc
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
141 Experiment Station Rd Bldg 11
Stoneville, MS 38776
Co-owners
Crop Prod Systems Research Unit

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 N944ZU links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Stoneville, MS 1 aircraft registered in this town
  • Mississippi 2,603 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N944ZU.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N944ZU, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United States Dept of Agric Agric Research Svc, a government body, certificate issued August 16, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N944ZU according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N944ZU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data