Edwin Miller CALIDUS
N4779M is an Edwin Miller CALIDUS, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Edwin Miller
- Model
- CALIDUS
- Serial number
- C00525
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH CALIDUS
- Transponder code
- A5DEBA (octal 51357272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 7, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01287631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- France Anthony R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9030 Julien Rd
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-9139
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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 N4779M, 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 France Anthony R, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00525 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4779M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-295, cancelled April 1, 1958). 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 N4779M: Accident on September 20, 2025 at Hopkinsville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Edwin Miller CALIDUS · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the gyroplane, which resulted in dynamic rollover and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA359 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
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