Jerald H Wilhelm CALIDUS
N455BW is a Jerald H Wilhelm CALIDUS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Osseo, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jerald H Wilhelm
- Model
- CALIDUS
- Serial number
- C00162
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO USA LLC CALIDUS
- Transponder code
- A584DD (octal 51302335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 28, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01077204
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilhelm Jerald H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2635 Winona Dr
Osseo, MI 49266-9802 - Co-owners
- Weil Jennifer C
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N455BW, 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 Wilhelm Jerald H, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N455BW 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 N455BW: Accident on October 7, 2011 at Thompsonville, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Wilhelm Calidus · operated under 091
The pilot 's inability to maintain control of the gyrocraft during the landing roll for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA013 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