General Atomics MQ9PREDATORBUHK97000
N870NA is a General Atomics MQ9PREDATORBUHK97000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It is unmanned. It is registered to NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body in Edwards, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- General Atomics (United States)FAA spelling: GENERAL ATOMICS AERO SYSTEMS
- Model
- MQ9PREDATORBUHK97000
- Serial number
- 04870
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABF783 (octal 52773603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01001511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Attn: James E Coleman III
PO Box 273
Edwards, CA 93523-0273
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