Curtis Arlen H VORTEX
N918AC is a Curtis Arlen H VORTEX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtis Arlen H
- Model
- VORTEX
- Serial number
- 034
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 618UL · 75 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- SPORT COPTER INC VORTEX
- Transponder code
- ACB466 (octal 53132146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01053245
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gallagher Patrick K
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2937 Gatsby Ln
Willoughby Hills, OH 44092-1341 - Co-owners
- Ripich Michael F
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N918AC, 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 Gallagher Patrick K, a co-owned, certificate issued December 18, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2012, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N918AC 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 N918AC. 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 September 30, 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