{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-05-21","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2023-11-02","city":"OKLAHOMA CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"36405","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"JETCAT","engine_model":"C81","engine_thrust_lb":81,"expiration_date":"2030-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-02","maker":"Kratos","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS","maker_segment":"Defense drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102FS","mode_s_code":"50370000","mode_s_hex":"A1F000","model":"MQM 178 FIREJET","n_number":"N224BK","name":"KRATOS UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N224BK is a Kratos MQM 178 FIREJET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2023. It is unmanned. It is registered to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated May 21, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 2, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated May 21, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6259038-1-333 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N224BK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kirk William W MINICOUPE (serial MC224, cancelled May 20, 2015). 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 N224BK. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":0,"serial_number":"6259038-1-333","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7501 SW 29TH ST STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"01426498","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N224BK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"731795214"}