Greg J Gunther SPORT COPTER VORTEX
N977ST is a Greg J Gunther SPORT COPTER VORTEX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Meadow Grove, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Greg J Gunther
- Model
- SPORT COPTER VORTEX
- Serial number
- 146
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- SPORT COPTER INC VORTEX M912
- Transponder code
- AD9F48 (octal 53317510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 29, 2013
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01074836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Joseph Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 54125 834 Rd
Meadow Grove, NE 68752-4067
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N977ST, 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 Smith Joseph Michael, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N977ST was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sill/Thomas LONG-EZ (serial 100ST, cancelled March 16, 1994). 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 N977ST: Accident on June 20, 1993 at Lone Pine, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sill/Thomas LONG EZ · operated under 091
the failure of the number four cylinder exhaust valve due to excessive heat exposure and lack of maintenance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93LA263 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data