Edward Donovan VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD
N517BT is an Edward Donovan VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Broomfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 8, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Edward Donovan
- Model
- VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD
- Serial number
- 2003
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD
- Transponder code
- A67B9B (octal 51475633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 8, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01390955
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tompkins Kimberly E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 17130 Galapago Ct
Broomfield, CO 80023-6411 - Co-owners
- Donovan Edward J
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N517BT, 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 Tompkins Kimberly E, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 8, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N517BT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N517BT. 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