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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Craig Mcpherson MTO SPORT
N423AG is a Craig Mcpherson MTO SPORT, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Craig Mcpherson
- Model
- MTO SPORT
- Serial number
- M01235
- Type
- GyroplaneFAA type of aircraft code 9 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH MTO SPORT
- Transponder code
- A506CB (octal 51203313)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 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 · July 9, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01184799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garner Nicholas
- 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
- 1406 Floyd Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-3455
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N423AG links to the rest of the register
- Craig Mcpherson 9 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 914UL 305 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Sunnyvale, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N423AG, 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 Garner Nicholas, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M01235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N423AG 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]
1 NTSB record under N423AG: Accident on June 29, 2026 at San Jose, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Autogyro MT03 · operated under 091
On June 29, 2026, about 1148 Pacific daylight Time, a MTO Sport gyroplane, N423AG, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Reid-Hillview Airport (RHV), San Jose, California. The pilot was seriously injured, and the passenger received minor injuries. The gyroplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, the purpose of the flight was to take a passenger on a local traffic pattern flight to demonstrate the gyroplane. The pilot reported that the pre-flight inspection, engine start, run-up, magneto check, and p…
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data