Hardy David L HARDY-ELITE
N879DH is a Hardy David L HARDY-ELITE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Beavercreek, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 19, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hardy David L
- Model
- HARDY-ELITE
- Serial number
- DLH1
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- AIR COMMAND INTL INC ELITE
- Transponder code
- AC1818 (octal 53014030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 19, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00190959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gaudette Douglas G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2535 Sugarloaf Ct
Beavercreek, OH 45434-6831
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N879DH, 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 Gaudette Douglas G, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 19, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DLH1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N879DH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N879DH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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