{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-11-05","airworthiness_ops":"Unmanned aircraft, research and development","category":"drone","cert_issue_date":"2020-01-22","city":"LAUREL","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"83357","engine_horsepower":120,"engine_maker":"KDE","engine_model":"8218XF","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"drones","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV APPLIED PHY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"061016U","mode_s_code":"53342571","mode_s_hex":"ADC579","model":"DRAGONFLY","n_number":"N987DJ","name":"JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":8,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N987DJ is a Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy DRAGONFLY, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It is unmanned. It is registered to Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, an LLC in Laurel, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated November 5, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 5, 2025, 5 years after the 2020 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 0010 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N987DJ 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N987DJ. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":0,"serial_number":"0010","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11100 JOHNS HOPKINS RD","street2":"BLDG 17-N238","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01310099","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N987DJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"207236005"}