Gilbert Kent G WHIRLYBIRD
N691WM is a Gilbert Kent G WHIRLYBIRD, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gilbert Kent G
- Model
- WHIRLYBIRD
- Serial number
- WB2013
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Viking 110 · 110 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A9306D (octal 52230155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01116066
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brock Shane R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12012 Kingsbridge Rd
Fort Wayne, IN 46814-7555
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N691WM, 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 Brock Shane R, an individual, certificate issued February 13, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WB2013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N691WM 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 N691WM: Accident on October 3, 1990 at Willow Springs, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gulfstream American 690B · operated under 091
THE AIRPLANES ENCOUNTER WITH A STATIC DISCHARGE, TURBULENCE AND A DOWNDRAFT IN THE CLOUDS WHICH WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA002 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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