Zipline P2 ZIP
N6551Z is a Zipline P2 ZIP, a hybrid-lift aircraft powered by electric motors (it takes off vertically and flies on wings). It is unmanned. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Zipline (United States)FAA spelling: ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC
- Model
- P2 ZIP
- Serial number
- 18736P23736
- Type
- Hybrid lift
- Power
- Electric, 5 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8A1E0 (octal 52120740)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned but not yet registered
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01558096
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N6551Z, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18736P23736 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6551Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-2094, cancelled April 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6551Z: Accident on June 4, 1983 at Omega, OK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-25-235 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83FA261 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data