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N517BT

Edward Donovan VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD

Valid Colorado

N517BT is an Edward Donovan VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Broomfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 8, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Edward Donovan
Model
VRTCL AVN HUMMINGBRD
Serial number
2003
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
2025
Kit
VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD
Transponder code
A67B9B (octal 51475633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
June 23, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 8, 2026
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01390955

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tompkins Kimberly E
Type
Co-owned
Address
17130 Galapago Ct
Broomfield, CO 80023-6411
Co-owners
Donovan Edward J

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.

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