{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2018-12-07","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-06","city":"HOPKINSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"047","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55553","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gyroplanes","kit_mfr":"AUTOGYRO GMBH","kit_model":"CALIDUS","last_action_date":"2025-08-06","maker":"Edwin Miller","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EDWIN MILLER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056377A","mode_s_code":"51357272","mode_s_hex":"A5DEBA","model":"CALIDUS","n_number":"N4779M","name":"FRANCE ANTHONY R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hopkinsville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-09-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA359","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain control of the gyroplane, which resulted in dynamic rollover and impact with terrain.","registration":"N4779M","state":"KY","summary":"Accident on September 20, 2025 at Hopkinsville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4779M is an Edwin Miller CALIDUS, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to France Anthony R, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C00525 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4779M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-295, cancelled April 1, 1958). 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 N4779M: Accident on September 20, 2025 at Hopkinsville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"C00525","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9030 JULIEN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Gyroplane","type_aircraft_code":"9","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01287631","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4779M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"422409139"}