{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-08-06","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2021-12-20","city":"HOLLYWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-08-14","maker":"Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VU HOLDINGS LLC/DBA VANILLA UN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"061017J","mode_s_code":"50444067","mode_s_hex":"A24837","model":"VA 001","n_number":"N246VU","name":"VU HOLDINGS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Ninilchik","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC25LA091","probable_cause":"","registration":"N246VU","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on August 20, 2025 at Ninilchik, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"VANILLA UNMANNED","plain_english":"N246VU is a Vu Holdings Llc/Dba Vanilla Un VA 001, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It is unmanned. It is registered to Vu Holdings LLC, an LLC in Hollywood, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated August 6, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vu Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 20, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18656A26444 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N246VU according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N246VU: Accident on August 20, 2025 at Ninilchik, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":0,"serial_number":"18656A26444","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"43960 AIRPORT VIEW DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01348478","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N246VU","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"206363105"}