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N978UA

Alaska Ctr For Unmanned Acft S1000

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N978UA is an Alaska Ctr For Unmanned Acft S1000, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to University Of Alaska Fairbanks Acuasi, a government body in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Alaska Ctr For Unmanned Acft
Model
S1000
Serial number
S1000-4
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Electric, 8 motors
Seats
0
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ADA320 (octal 53321440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 8, 2018
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01272577

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University Of Alaska Fairbanks Acuasi
Type
Government
Address
903 Koyukuk Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99775-0001

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

2004-02-02Boeing 737-291 · exported to Pakistan · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data