Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy DRAGONFLY
N987DJ is a Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy DRAGONFLY, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It is unmanned. It is registered to Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, an LLC in Laurel, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated November 5, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy
- Model
- DRAGONFLY
- Serial number
- 0010
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors · Kde 8218XF · 120 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- ADC579 (octal 53342571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · November 5, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01310099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd
Bldg 17-N238
Laurel, MD 20723-6005
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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 N987DJ, 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 Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 5, 2025, 5 years after the 2020 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N987DJ 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 N987DJ. 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 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