John S Wolfe VORTEX M912
N163SW is a John S Wolfe VORTEX M912, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Marysville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John S Wolfe
- Model
- VORTEX M912
- Serial number
- 194
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SPORT COPTER INC VORTEX M912
- Transponder code
- A0FE78 (octal 50177170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01266800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wolfe John S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10211 Watkins Rd
Marysville, OH 43040-9542
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
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The public federal record on N163SW, 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 Wolfe John S, an individual, certificate issued November 30, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N163SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC327, cancelled date not given). 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 N163SW: Accident on January 15, 1987 at Kearns, UT: fatal, destroyed (10 fatal). 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: Swearingen SA-226TC · operated under 135
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
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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