{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-31","city":"CALIFORNIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-31","maker":"Edge Autonomy","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"EDGE AUTONOMY","maker_segment":"Defense drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102LD","mode_s_code":"50253152","mode_s_hex":"A1566A","model":"PENGUIN-B","n_number":"N1856A","name":"UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UAS RESEARCH","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"AND OPERATIONS CENTER","plain_english":"N1856A is an Edge Autonomy PENGUIN-B, a hybrid-lift aircraft with a two-stroke engine (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to University Of Maryland UAS Research, a government body in California, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to University Of Maryland UAS Research, a government body, certificate issued July 31, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PNB1031 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1856A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18A (serial 18-1683, cancelled October 28, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N1856A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":0,"serial_number":"PNB1031","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"44181 AIRPORT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Hybrid lift","type_aircraft_code":"H","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01511216","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1856A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"206191900"}