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N5530S

DJI AIR 3S

Valid Agricultural dronesElectricNorth Carolina

N5530S is a DJI AIR 3S, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
DJI (China)
Model
AIR 3S
Serial number
1581F895C25A5007JJKK
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Electric, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A70CF9 (octal 51606371)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 21, 2026
Expires
April 30, 2033
Last FAA action
April 21, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01541609

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Samaritans Purse
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2015-12-17Cessna 172S · exported to Russian Federation · Valid registration
1990-06-15Cessna 188 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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