Vadney Mike VORTEX
N6140V is a Vadney Mike VORTEX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Arlington, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 13, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vadney Mike
- Model
- VORTEX
- Serial number
- 88
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- SPORT COPTER INC VORTEX
- Transponder code
- A80006 (octal 52000006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2001
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 13, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00013744
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vadney Mike C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2328 N John Marshall Dr
Arlington, VA 22205
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6140V, 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 Vadney Mike C, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2001, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 13, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 88 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6140V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Schweizer 269C (serial S1703, cancelled September 3, 1997); Lake LA-4-200 (serial 802, cancelled March 13, 1984). 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 N6140V. 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