{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-03","city":"EDINBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"215","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":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-03","maker":"Leading Edge Aerial Technologies","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"LEADING EDGE AERIAL TECH INC","maker_segment":"Agricultural drones","mfr_mdl_code":"06102DH","mode_s_code":"51526443","mode_s_hex":"A6AD23","model":"PV40X","n_number":"N5293E","name":"USDA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":6,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5293E is a Leading Edge Aerial Technologies PV40X, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Usda, a government body in Edinburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. 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 Usda, a government body, certificate issued March 3, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. 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 11495 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5293E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerostar International Inc RX 8 (serial RX8-3345, cancelled November 2, 2009); Cessna 180B (serial 50593, cancelled August 26, 1959). 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 N5293E. 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":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":0,"serial_number":"11495","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"22675 N MOOREFIELD RD","street2":"MOORE AIR BASE BLDG 6419","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01537703","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5293E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"78541"}