Scheibe L SPATZ-55
N1087 is a Scheibe L SPATZ-55, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Airpower Museum INC, a corporation in Ottumwa, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Scheibe
- Model
- L SPATZ-55 · all L SPATZ-55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 71
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A025B9 (octal 50022671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 1969
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00130580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airpower Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 22001 Bluegrass Rd
Ottumwa, IA 52501-8569
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1087, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Airpower Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 22, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1087 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Wright Aero Corp BIPLANE (serial 5, cancelled August 16, 1929). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1087. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data