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N490BF

Firestorm Labs TEMPEST BETA 2 TURBO

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N490BF is a Firestorm Labs TEMPEST BETA 2 TURBO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines. It is unmanned. It is registered to Firestorm Labs INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Firestorm Labs (United States)
FAA spelling: FIRESTORM LABS INC
Model
TEMPEST BETA 2 TURBO
Serial number
1849E074B893A03D1DM
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbofan, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A61037 (octal 51410067)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 18, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 18, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01521135

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Firestorm Labs INC
Type
Corporation
Address
9431 Dowdy Dr
San Diego, CA 92126-4480

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