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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Michael Kennedy ARGON 915
N981M is a Michael Kennedy ARGON 915, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael Kennedy
- Model
- ARGON 915
- Serial number
- MLAG0029
- 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
- 2025
- Kit
- MANUFAKTURA LOTNICZA SP Z O O ARGON 915
- Transponder code
- ADAFEE (octal 53327756)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 17, 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 · November 26, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01514687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kennedy Michael
- 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
- 6581 Pine St
Fort Myers, FL 33905-7665
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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
Connections how N981M links to the rest of the register
- Michael Kennedy 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 915 IS 393 aircraft with this engine series · 135 hp
- Fort Myers, FL 432 aircraft registered in this town
- Page Field · FMY
- Southwest Florida International · RSW
- Florida 21,698 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N981M.json.
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The public federal record on N981M, 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 Kennedy Michael, an individual, certificate issued November 17, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MLAG0029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N981M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bird Aircraft Corp CK (serial 4036, cancelled April 8, 1936). 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 N981M. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data