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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026David Fulper FULPER GLASTAR
N161D is a David Fulper FULPER GLASTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clearwater, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 17, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- David Fulper
- Model
- FULPER GLASTAR
- Serial number
- 5745
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2A · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Kit
- STODDARD HAMILTON AIRCRAFT INC GLASTAR
- Transponder code
- A0F5B0 (octal 50172660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 17, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01339732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fulper Lester D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2402 Nursery Rd
Clearwater, FL 33764-2749
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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 1
Connections how N161D links to the rest of the register
- David Fulper 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-D2A 72 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Clearwater, FL 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Clearwater Executive · CLW
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-D2A 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-D2A 67 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N161D, 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 Fulper Lester D, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 17, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Glasflugel STD LIBELLE 201B (serial 22, cancelled June 5, 2015). 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]
1 NTSB record under N161D: Accident on April 2, 2004 at Oso, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Glasflugel STD Libelle 201B · operated under 091
The pilot of the Glaser-Dirks (lead glider) failure to maintain clearance form the Glasflugel (trailing glider) resulting in a mid-air collision while maneuvering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data