Nasa Langley Research Center PLATO 1
N565NU is a Nasa Langley Research Center PLATO 1, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to NASA Langley Research Center, a government body in Hampton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nasa Langley Research Center
- Model
- PLATO 1
- Serial number
- ECN2686012
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A73ABC (octal 51635274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01423221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 6 E Taylor St
Hampton, VA 23681-2130
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