Jim Faist CALIDUS
N45CM is a Jim Faist CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to West Sport Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 26, 2017. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jim Faist
- Model
- CALIDUS
- Serial number
- C00425
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO USA LLC CALIDUS
- Transponder code
- A57001 (octal 51270001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 26, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01201685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Sport Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1934 E Savannah Dr
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86404-8400
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N45CM, 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 West Sport Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 26, 2017, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00425 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45CM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1463, cancelled August 1, 2006); Aero Commander 680FL P (serial 150117, cancelled August 12, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N45CM. 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