Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1
N171DM is a Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated June 2, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pdps Pzl-Bielsko
- Model
- SZD-55-1 · all SZD-55-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 551192032
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A11D3B (octal 50216473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · June 2, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00083852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martin William F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1415 Sage Run
San Antonio, TX 78253-5804
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N171DM, 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 Martin William F, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 551192032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N171DM according to the deregistered file. [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 N171DM. 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