Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40X
N998TV is a Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Tennessee Valley Authority, a government body in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 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
- Leading Edge Aerial Technologies (United States)FAA spelling: LEADING EDGE AERIAL TECH INC
- Model
- PV40X · all PV40Xs and related versions
- Built of
- carbon fibre and plasticA drone: a carbon-fibre or moulded plastic frame carrying electric motors, batteries and the flight computer. An agricultural drone: carbon-fibre tube arms on a cast aluminium centre, with composite tanks. This is how the Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 11511
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADF218 (octal 53371030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01501342
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Attn: Zackary Whittle
4600 N Access Rd Bldg G1
Chattanooga, TN 37415
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.
Connections how N998TV links to the rest of the register
- Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40 51 registered
- Leading Edge Aerial Technologies 107 aircraft on the register
- Built of carbon fibre and plastic · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tennessee Valley Authority 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Chattanooga, TN 133 aircraft registered in this town
- Lovell Field · CHA
- Tennessee 6,522 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N998TV.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N998TV, 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 Tennessee Valley Authority, a government body, certificate issued October 17, 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 11511 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N998TV 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 N998TV. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data