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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bobby D Prater
- Model
- GT VX-2
- Serial number
- VX2-014
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 30, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01515510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prater Bobby D
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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