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N9704Y

Yamaha Motor YAMAHA FAZER-R

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N9704Y is a Yamaha Motor YAMAHA FAZER-R, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation in Cypress, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Yamaha Motor (Japan)
FAA spelling: YAMAHA MOTOR COMPANY LTD
Model
YAMAHA FAZER-R
Serial number
1596F351901936429418
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
2023
Transponder code
AD86A0 (octal 53303240)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 25, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
April 5, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, market survey; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · December 23, 2024
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01385403

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Yamaha Motor CORP USA
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
6555 Katella Ave
Cypress, CA 90630-5101

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

2015-11-09Beech 35-B33 · Valid registration

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The public federal record on N9704Y, 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 Yamaha Motor CORP USA, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued January 25, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, market survey; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated December 23, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1596F351901936429418 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9704Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-B33 (serial CD-597, cancelled November 9, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9704Y: Accident on August 23, 2015 at El Dorado, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN15FA374Accident on August 23, 2015 at El Dorado, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: CD-597

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 35 B33 · operated under 091

The loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined during postaccident examination of the accident site or based on the available information and the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane's critical angle-of-attack after the engine power loss, which led to an aerodynamic stall and loss of control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15FA374 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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