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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Kirk A Grover KG1 GYROPLANE
N140KG is a Kirk A Grover KG1 GYROPLANE, a rotorcraft with a two-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Prairieville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 14, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kirk A Grover
- Model
- KG1 GYROPLANE
- Serial number
- 005
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Hirth 3003 · 110 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0A398 (octal 50121630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 14, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01415254
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grover Kirk A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 39110 Balmoral Dr
Prairieville, LA 70769-4856
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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 2
Connections how N140KG links to the rest of the register
- Kirk A Grover 1 aircraft on the register
- Hirth 3003 2 aircraft with this engine series · 110 hp
- Prairieville, LA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N140KG.json.
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The public federal record on N140KG, 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 Grover Kirk A, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 14, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N140KG was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Kirk A Grover DOMINATOR GYROPLANE (serial 003, cancelled October 21, 2021); Kirk A Grover JAKENATOR (serial 001, cancelled June 20, 2018). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N140KG. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data