Mayfield James P SPARROWHAWK
N8023Y is a Mayfield James P SPARROWHAWK, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Panguitch, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mayfield James P
- Model
- SPARROWHAWK
- Serial number
- 2003003
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AAEC23 (octal 52566043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 4, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00069479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reeve Gilbert
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 275
Panguitch, UT 84759-0275
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8023Y, 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 Reeve Gilbert, an individual, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2003003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8023Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Whitmore Henry L HUMMEL BIRD (serial 3219P, cancelled August 29, 2000); Cessna 500 (serial 500 0385, cancelled date not given). 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 N8023Y: Accident on May 14, 2005 at Hondo, TX: no 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: Mayfield Sparrowhawk · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the gyrocraft during takeoff. A contributing factor was the failure of the pre-rotator cable.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05CA120 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
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