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N2223A

Marchetti Frank AVENGER GYRO PLANE

Valid Illinois

N2223A is a Marchetti Frank AVENGER GYRO PLANE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Majestic Aviaiton, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Marchetti Frank
Model
AVENGER GYRO PLANE
Serial number
FM1-2000
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A1EB31 (octal 50365461)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 18, 1996
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
November 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 21, 1979
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00411952

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Majestic Aviaiton
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O Silas Smith
226 N Clinton St Apt 404
Chicago, IL 60661-1136

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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

—Piper PA-22-135 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2223A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Majestic Aviaiton, a corporation, certificate issued December 18, 1996, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FM1-2000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2223A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22623, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2223A: Accident on July 24, 1998 at Mentone, IN: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI98LA277Accident on July 24, 1998 at Mentone, IN: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: FMI2000

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Marchetti AVENGER GRYO PLANE · operated under 091

the pilot's lack of familiarity with the gyroplane's performance, and his improper in-flight decision to reduce engine power to idle which aggravated the gyroplane's nose down pitch and exceeded the gyroplane's back stick authority.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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