N87HC
John Franklin AURORA BUTTERFLY
Valid
Virginia
N87HC is a John Franklin AURORA BUTTERFLY, a gyroplane with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Purcellville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Franklin
- Model
- AURORA BUTTERFLY
- Serial number
- B146
- Type
- Gyroplane
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- ABF4AF (octal 52772257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 9, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01139068
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franklin John M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18307 Lickey Mill Rd
Purcellville, VA 20132-3940
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
2009-11-23Blanchard E J HI CO 503W · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data