Bobby D Prater GT VX-2
N26457 is a Bobby D Prater GT VX-2, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Grand Ledge, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bobby D Prater
- Model
- GT VX-2
- Serial number
- VX2-014
- Type
- GyroplaneFAA type of aircraft code 9 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- GYRO TECHNIC LLC GT-VX2
- Transponder code
- A29100 (octal 50510400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2025
- 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 30, 2025
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01515510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prater Bobby D
- 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
- 11929 Arrowhead Dr
Grand Ledge, MI 48837-2422
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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 N26457 links to the rest of the register
- Bobby D Prater 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912ULS 59 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Grand Ledge, MI 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Abrams Municipal · 4D0
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N26457.json.
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The public federal record on N26457, 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 Prater Bobby D, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VX2-014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26457 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A (serial AA5A0607, cancelled date not given); Meyers OTW (serial 10, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N26457. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data