Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40X
N970CA is a Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Akron, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". 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
- PV40X · all PV40Xs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11475
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD83D8 (octal 53301730)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01451608
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 31124 Hwy 63
Akron, CO 80720-9321
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 2
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N970CA, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 11475 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N970CA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40644, cancelled October 21, 2013); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2821216, cancelled September 5, 1990). 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]
2 NTSB records under N970CA: Accident on October 31, 1996 at St. Vincent: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on April 21, 1990 at St.Maarten: no injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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