Troy W Tipton HUMMINGBIRD 300L
N228VT is a Troy W Tipton HUMMINGBIRD 300L, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ellicott City, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Troy W Tipton
- Model
- HUMMINGBIRD 300L
- Serial number
- 2001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 300L
- Transponder code
- A200A6 (octal 50400246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01454395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tipton Troy W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4587 Roundhill Rd
Ellicott City, MD 21043-6759
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.
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The public federal record on N228VT, 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 Tipton Troy W, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. 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 2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228VT according to the deregistered file. [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 N228VT. 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 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
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