Kaminski Gary D RAF 2000 GYROPLANE
N73GK is a Kaminski Gary D RAF 2000 GYROPLANE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Caledonia, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kaminski Gary D
- Model
- RAF 2000 GYROPLANE
- Serial number
- H2-00-11-478
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF-2000
- Transponder code
- A9C952 (octal 52344522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00444044
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dohm James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 726 144Th Ave
Caledonia, MI 49316-9623
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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 N73GK, 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 Dohm James E, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H2-00-11-478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73GK 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 N73GK: Accident on August 3, 2002 at Newberg, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kaminski RAF 2000 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation (excessive altitude) for crosswind conditions resulting in the gyroplane's rotors contacting the ground. Contributing factors were the gusty crosswind conditions.
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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 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