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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Walter Rosales ELA EVO
N897AC is a Walter Rosales ELA EVO, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Payson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 28, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Walter Rosales
- Model
- ELA EVO
- Serial number
- 03236921025
- Type
- GyroplaneFAA type of aircraft code 9 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- ELA AVIACION ELA EVO
- Transponder code
- AC5F58 (octal 53057530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 28, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01433726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hayden Keith
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1005 N Aviator Pkwy
Payson, AZ 85541-3530
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N897AC links to the rest of the register
- Walter Rosales 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 915 IS 393 aircraft with this engine series · 135 hp
- Payson, AZ 91 aircraft registered in this town
- Payson Airport · PAN
- Arizona 8,436 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N897AC.json.
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The public federal record on N897AC, 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 Hayden Keith, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 28, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03236921025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N897AC 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 N897AC. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data