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N68478

Knowlton Kenneth W HELICYCLE

Valid Alaska

N68478 is a Knowlton Kenneth W HELICYCLE, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 22, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Knowlton Kenneth W
Model
HELICYCLE
Serial number
04-010
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
2008
Kit
EAGLE R & D CO LLC HELICYCLE
Transponder code
A91581 (octal 52212601)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 19, 2018
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
January 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 22, 2008
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00364089

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Swan John H
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 141689
Anchorage, AK 99514-1689

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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

1994-02-03Cessna 425 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration
1971-02-02Cessna T-50 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N68478, 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 Swan John H, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 22, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 04-010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N68478 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 425 (serial 4250091, cancelled February 3, 1994); Cessna T-50 (serial 4680, cancelled February 2, 1971). 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 N68478. 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