{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-08-20","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-07-11","city":"NAPERVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"043","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33730","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"HIRTH","engine_model":"F30","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Roberg Charles","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROBERG CHARLES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056190O","mode_s_code":"52621450","mode_s_hex":"AB2328","model":"GYROFLIGHT TANDEM","n_number":"N8168T","name":"GYROFLIGHT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8168T is a Roberg Charles GYROFLIGHT TANDEM, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gyroflight INC, a corporation in Naperville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gyroflight INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 11, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GT-1 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8168T was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 407 (serial 53331, cancelled March 10, 2003); Fairchild C-123K (serial 54596, cancelled May 6, 1993); Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R8031073, cancelled October 25, 1988). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8168T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"GT-1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"614 BUNKER HILL CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00188649","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8168T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"605407128"}