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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Slingsby DART T.51
N1271 is a Slingsby DART T.51, a glider with no engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 10, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Slingsby
- Model
- DART T.51 · all DART T.51s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A glider of wood and fabric, with a steel-tube fuselage frame on some versions. This is how the Slingsby DART T.51 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1513
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A0702E (octal 50070056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 10, 1966
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00730650
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brokenstraw Flyers
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 134
Pittsfield, PA 16340-0134 - Co-owners
- Gustafson Allan L
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N1271 links to the rest of the register
- Slingsby DART T.51 5 registered
- Slingsby 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pittsfield, PA 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,182 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Slingsby DART T.51 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Slingsby DART T.51 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1271, 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 Brokenstraw Flyers, a co-owned, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 10, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1513 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1271 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gwinn Aircar Co Inc I (serial 501, cancelled July 12, 1948); Curtiss JN4D (serial 55-455, cancelled March 20, 1930). 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 N1271. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data