{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1984-08-20","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1982-03-26","city":"HAMILTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"63501","engine_horsepower":36,"engine_maker":"VOLKSWAGEN","engine_model":"CONVERSION","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Alderfer Edward A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ALDERFER EDWARD A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1302779","mode_s_code":"50116150","mode_s_hex":"A09C68","model":"ALDERFER GYROPLANE","n_number":"N1388Q","name":"ALDERFER EDWARD A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HAMILTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1983-10-15","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI84LA024","probable_cause":"","registration":"N1388Q","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on October 15, 1983 at Hamilton, OH: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1388Q is an Alderfer Edward A ALDERFER GYROPLANE, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hamilton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 1982 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Alderfer Edward A, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 1982, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13132-2 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1388Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15072688, cancelled September 10, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1388Q: Accident on October 15, 1983 at Hamilton, OH: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"13132-2","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4278 SHAFOR DRIVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00150421","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1388Q","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1984,"zip":"45011"}