Matthew Westhoff S500
N979UA is a Matthew Westhoff S500, 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 February 7, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Matthew Westhoff
- Model
- S500
- Serial number
- QD-1001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 4 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADA6D7 (octal 53323327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01238404
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of Alaska Fairbanks Acuasi
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2160 Koyukuk Dr Rm 306
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
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data