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N168US

Ascending Technologies Gmbh FIREFLY

Valid ElectricNebraska

N168US is an Ascending Technologies Gmbh FIREFLY, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, a government body in Lincoln, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Ascending Technologies Gmbh
Model
FIREFLY
Serial number
33971700
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Electric, 6 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A11139 (octal 50210471)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 3, 2015
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01181573

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Type
Government
Address
220 Schorr Center
Lincoln, NE 68588

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data