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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Jim Faist CALIDUS
N4686S is a Jim Faist CALIDUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dorr, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jim Faist
- Model
- CALIDUS
- Serial number
- 11023
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO USA LLC CALIDUS
- Transponder code
- A5BA8E (octal 51335216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 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 · May 30, 2012
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01093424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tjepkema Charles S
- 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
- 4537 16Th St
Dorr, MI 49323-9743
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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 N4686S links to the rest of the register
- Jim Faist 2 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,382 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Dorr, MI 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4686S.json.
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The public federal record on N4686S, 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 Tjepkema Charles S, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4686S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna TR182 (serial R18201379, cancelled July 27, 1995); Bensen B-8M (serial 409, cancelled December 7, 1967). 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 N4686S. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data