John Franklin AURORA BUTTERFLY
N87HC is a John Franklin AURORA BUTTERFLY, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Purcellville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Franklin
- Model
- AURORA BUTTERFLY
- Serial number
- B146
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- ABF4AF (octal 52772257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 9, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01139068
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franklin John M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18307 Lickey Mill Rd
Purcellville, VA 20132-3940
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N87HC, 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 Franklin John M, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87HC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Blanchard E J HI CO 503W (serial HC-87001W, cancelled November 23, 2009). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87HC. 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