General Atomics USH97000-1
N974BN is a General Atomics USH97000-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation in Poway, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Atomics (United States)FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
- Model
- USH97000-1 · all USH97000-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- GA-14-1004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD92A7 (octal 53311247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01521079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14200 Kirkham Way
Poway, CA 92064-7103
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.
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The public federal record on N974BN, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 22, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. 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 GA-14-1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N974BN according to the deregistered file. [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 N974BN. 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