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N874NA

Northrup Grumman RQ-4A

N874NA is a Northrup Grumman RQ-4A, 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 December 14, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Northrup Grumman
Model
RQ-4A
Serial number
02-2012
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbofan, 1 motor
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC065F (octal 53003137)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 14, 2015
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01198202

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
Co-owners
Attn: Thomas J Grindle

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