Cartercopters Llc CARTERCOPTER
N121CC is a Cartercopters Llc CARTERCOPTER, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Carter Aviation Technologies LLC, an LLC in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 1998 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 18, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cartercopters Llc
- Model
- CARTERCOPTER
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A0579E (octal 50053636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 1998
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · January 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00197251
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carter Aviation Technologies LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2730 Commerce St Ste 600
Wichita Falls, TX 76301-8066
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N121CC, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Carter Aviation Technologies LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 8, 1998, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 18, 2005, 7 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N121CC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210N (serial 21064350, cancelled April 19, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
6 NTSB records under N121CC: Accident on June 17, 2005 at Olney, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 8, 2003 at Olney, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 29, 2001 at Olney, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 6
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopter LLC CarterCopter · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to maintain control of the gyrocraft during a forced landing as a result of a loss of cyclic and collective control. Contributing factors were the sheared propeller drive pulley bolts, broken wire on the co-pilots cyclic boost control solenoid, failure of the ballistic parachute to deploy, and the lack of suitable terrain for forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopter Prototype · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear. A factor was his diverted attention.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopters Cartercopter · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff initial climb. Contributory factors were the pilot's lack of experience with the aircraft and the soft terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopters Cartercopter · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain rotor rpm, which resuted in the main rotor contacting the tail during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopter MODEL 1 · operated under 091
The pilot's delay in lowering the collective during a run-on landing, which resulted in a runway overrun. A factor was the muddy terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cartercopters CARTERCOPTER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain rotor rpm during takeoff, which resulted in a hard landing following the aborted takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data