Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT
N952RA is a Martin UAV (Shield AI) V-BAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Shield Ai INC, a corporation in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Martin UAV (Shield AI) (United States)FAA spelling: MARTIN UAV LLC
- Model
- V-BAT · all V-BATs and related versions
- Serial number
- VB-100063
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD3D8D (octal 53236615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01383148
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shield Ai INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N952RA, 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 Shield Ai INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. 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 VB-100063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N952RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Roger M Allen RA2 (serial 599, cancelled October 24, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N952RA: Accident on August 6, 2017 at Hector, MN: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Roger M Allen RA2 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper installation of the control stick hardware, which resulted in a loss of elevator control in flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17LA304 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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