DJI AGRAS T40
N987KB is a DJI AGRAS T40, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to an individual in Aurelia, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- DJI (China)
- Model
- AGRAS T40 · all AGRAS T40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1581F5745229D001QG35
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADC608 (octal 53343010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01394551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Graham Preston N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5961 U Ave
Aurelia, IA 51005-7062
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 N987KB, 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 Graham Preston N, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2025, expires March 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 1581F5745229D001QG35 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N987KB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boehlke Kevin P 2/3 SCALE JENNY (serial 001, cancelled January 10, 2018). 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 N987KB: Accident on March 18, 2012 at Hannacroix, NY: 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: Boehlke Kevin P 2/3 SCALE JENNY · operated under 091
The non-certificated pilot's improper high-speed taxi test, which resulted in a loss of control and the pilot's subsequent decision to take off to avoid trees. Also causal, was an in-flight magneto failure, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inability to maintain control of the airplane due to his lack of total flight experience and his lack of experience in the airplane make and model.
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 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