Alderfer Edward A ALDERFER GYROPLANE
N7039W is an Alderfer Edward A ALDERFER GYROPLANE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hamilton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 1988 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alderfer Edward A
- Model
- ALDERFER GYROPLANE
- Serial number
- A-101
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A9635B (octal 52261533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 1988
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 1990
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00444321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alderfer Edward A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4278 Shafor Road
Hamilton, OH 45011
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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
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The public federal record on N7039W, 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 Alderfer Edward A, an individual, certificate issued November 29, 1988, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7039W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna R182 (serial R18200050, cancelled July 1, 1986); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-722, cancelled February 16, 1972). 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]
1 NTSB record under N7039W: Accident on October 7, 1983 at Grovont, WY: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R182 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
