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N5460

Wessel Marvin E Jr RAF 2000 GTX/SE

Valid Arizona

N5460 is a Wessel Marvin E Jr RAF 2000 GTX/SE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chandler, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Wessel Marvin E Jr
Model
RAF 2000 GTX/SE
Serial number
H2-97-8-334
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2003
Kit
ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF 2000 GTX SE
Transponder code
A6F08E (octal 51570216)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 9, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 13, 2003
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00785852

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wessel Marvin E JR
Type
Individual
Address
100 Stellar Pkwy
Chandler, AZ 85226-3725

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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

1974-04-23Lorentson BENSEN GYROCOPTER · Valid registration
1948-07-13Waco GXE · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5460, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wessel Marvin E JR, an individual, certificate issued July 9, 2003, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H2-97-8-334 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5460 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lorentson BENSEN GYROCOPTER (serial JCL100, cancelled April 23, 1974); Waco GXE (serial 1469, cancelled July 13, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5460. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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