Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK
N871NA is a Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan 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 May 30, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop Grumman (United States)FAA spelling: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP
- Model
- YRQ-4A GLOBAL HAWK
- Serial number
- 95-2001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 1 motor
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABFB3A (octal 52775472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01051643
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