Chris Toeppen CAVALON
N40CT is a Chris Toeppen CAVALON, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Atherton, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chris Toeppen
- Model
- CAVALON
- Serial number
- V00300
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH CAVALON
- Transponder code
- A4AA8C (octal 51125214)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 22, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01275486
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Toeppen Chris P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 36 Fairview Ave
Atherton, CA 94027-5427
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40CT, 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 Toeppen Chris P, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 22, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40CT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421 (serial 421-0099, cancelled November 15, 2012). 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 N40CT: Accident on May 13, 2026 at Palo Alto, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Autogyro CAVALON · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, in gusting crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA194 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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