James P Schmidt SCHMIDT TITANIUM EXP
N665TE is a James P Schmidt SCHMIDT TITANIUM EXP, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aurora, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James P Schmidt
- Model
- SCHMIDT TITANIUM EXP
- Serial number
- 0066-0125
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 914ULS · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- TAG AVIATION PTY LTD TITANIUM EXPLORER
- Transponder code
- A8C87A (octal 52144172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01498693
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmidt James P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1480 S Laredo St
Aurora, CO 80017-4003
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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 N665TE, 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 Schmidt James P, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0066-0125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N665TE 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]
1 NTSB record under N665TE: Accident on July 13, 2026 at Larkspur, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tag Aviation PTY LTD Titanium Explorer · operated under 091
On July 13, 2026, about 800 mountain daylight time, a Tag Aviation Pty Ltd Titanium Explorer gyrocopter, N665TE was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Larkspur, Colorado. The pilot passed away in the hospital five days after the accident. The gyrocopter was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. According to a friend of the pilot, the pilot flew the gyrocopter from Meadowlake Airport (FLY) Peyton, Colorado, to Central Colorado Airport (AEJ) Buena Vista, Colorado, 4 days before the accident. The pilot and his friend flew th…
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- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data