Alderfer Edward A ALDERFER GYROPLANE
N1388Q is an Alderfer Edward A ALDERFER GYROPLANE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hamilton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 1982 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alderfer Edward A
- Model
- ALDERFER GYROPLANE
- Serial number
- 13132-2
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A09C68 (octal 50116150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 1982
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 20, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00150421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alderfer Edward A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4278 Shafor Drive
Hamilton, OH 45011
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1388Q, 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 Alderfer Edward A, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 1982, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13132-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1388Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15072688, cancelled September 10, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1388Q: Accident on October 15, 1983 at Hamilton, OH: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Alderfer GYROPLANE · operated under 091
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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data