Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy DRAGONFLY
N987DJ is a Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy DRAGONFLY, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It is unmanned. It is registered to Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC, an LLC in Laurel, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development, dated November 5, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Phy
- Model
- DRAGONFLY
- Serial number
- 0010
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 8 motors · Kde 8218XF · 120 hp
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- ADC579 (octal 53342571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development · November 5, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01310099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johns Hopkins Univ Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd
Bldg 17-N238
Laurel, MD 20723-6005
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Documents on file 0
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data