{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-17","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-15","city":"HERCULES","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55607","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gyroplanes","kit_mfr":"GYRO TECHNIC LLC","kit_model":"GT-VX2","last_action_date":"2025-07-15","maker":"Mark Lee Schillinger","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MARK LEE SCHILLINGER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643AC","mode_s_code":"51613135","mode_s_hex":"A7165D","model":"GT-VX2","n_number":"N556GT","name":"SCHILLINGER MARK LEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Petaluma","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-07-30","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA282","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N556GT","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 30, 2026 at Petaluma, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N556GT is a Mark Lee Schillinger GT-VX2, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hercules, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 17, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Schillinger Mark Lee, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 17, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VX2-011 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N556GT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N556GT: Accident on July 30, 2026 at Petaluma, CA: minor 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"VX2-011","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"457 GRENADINE WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Gyroplane","type_aircraft_code":"9","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01507216","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N556GT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"945472051"}