{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-03-11","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-12","city":"SIERRA VISTA","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59295","engine_horsepower":24,"engine_maker":"SUTER","engine_model":"TOA 288","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Martin UAV (Shield AI)","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"MARTIN UAV","maker_segment":"Defense drones","mfr_mdl_code":"061016F","mode_s_code":"51253636","mode_s_hex":"A5579E","model":"VBAT","n_number":"N443VA","name":"NORTHROP GRUMMAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Douglas","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-04-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA135","probable_cause":"The malfunction of the throttle servo which resulted in the complete loss of engine power.","registration":"N443VA","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 8, 2025 at Douglas, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N443VA is a Martin UAV (Shield AI) VBAT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2022. It is unmanned. It is registered to Northrop Grumman, a corporation in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated March 11, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Northrop Grumman, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 11, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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 043 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N443VA 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 N443VA: Accident on April 8, 2025 at Douglas, AZ: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":0,"serial_number":"043","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4067 ENTERPRISE WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01386003","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N443VA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"856352273"}