Johannes De Koning ARGON 916 GTL
N43KH is a Johannes De Koning ARGON 916 GTL, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to De Koning INC, a corporation in Glen Allen, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 30, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johannes De Koning
- Model
- ARGON 916 GTL
- Serial number
- GTL0016
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- MANUFAKTURA LOTNICZA ARGON GTL
- Transponder code
- A521AE (octal 51220656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 30, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01485413
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- De Koning INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5913 Old Greenway Dr
Glen Allen, VA 23059-7062
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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
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The public federal record on N43KH, 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 De Koning INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 26, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 30, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GTL0016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43KH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Heronimus Kevin A GLASAIR III (serial 3021, cancelled November 26, 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 N43KH: Accident on September 30, 2011 at Falls Of Rough, KY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Heronimus Kevin A GLASAIR III · operated under 091
The failure of the propeller power speed reduction unit, which resulted in a loss of engine power at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11FA512 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data