{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-16","city":"MERRIMACK","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","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":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-16","maker":"Elbit Systems Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06101T9","mode_s_code":"51271221","mode_s_hex":"A57291","model":"HERMES 450","n_number":"N450ES","name":"ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N450ES is an Elbit Systems Ltd HERMES 450, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a rotary engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Elbit Systems Of America LLC, an LLC in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. 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 Elbit Systems Of America LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 16, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. 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 109 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N450ES was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17280367, cancelled April 16, 1998). 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 N450ES. 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":0,"serial_number":"109","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"220 DANIEL WEBSTER HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Rotary","type_engine_code":"11","unique_id":"01216797","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N450ES","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"030544898"}