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N1978B

Barry R Kropelin XTRACT

Valid Ohio

N1978B is a Barry R Kropelin XTRACT, a gyroplane with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hamilton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Barry R Kropelin
Model
XTRACT
Serial number
BK2012
Type
Gyroplane
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A1859E (octal 50302636)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 18, 2018
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 8, 2013
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01096377

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alderfer Edward
Type
Co-owned
Address
4278 Shafor Dr
Hamilton, OH 45011-2337
Co-owners
Alderfer Bernadine

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1970-08-27Luscombe 8A · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data