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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Wilson John GYROCOPTER
N4661W is a Wilson John GYROCOPTER, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pinnacle, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilson John
- Model
- GYROCOPTER
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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 · Subaru EA-81 · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A5B275 (octal 51331165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- 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 · August 13, 2016
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01090340
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson John W
- 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
- 4375 N Old 52 Rd
Pinnacle, NC 27043-8490
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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 2
Connections how N4661W links to the rest of the register
- Wilson John 1 aircraft on the register
- Subaru (converted) EA-81 23 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Pinnacle, NC 5 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,122 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4661W.json.
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The public federal record on N4661W, 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 Wilson John W, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4661W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Rockwell International 112TC (serial 13191, cancelled October 5, 1978); Cherne Russell E SR-1 HORNET BIPLANE (serial 1983121000K3, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4661W. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data