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N854AQ

Oak Ridge National Lab LAIKA

Valid ElectricTennessee

N854AQ is an Oak Ridge National Lab LAIKA, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a government body in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Oak Ridge National Lab
Model
LAIKA
Serial number
01
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Electric, 4 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABB643 (octal 52733103)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 16, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01346716

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Type
Government
Address
1 Bethel Valley Rd
Oak Ridge, TN 37830-8050

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