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N1741

Bolkow PHOEBUS A-1

Valid Montana

N1741 is a Bolkow PHOEBUS A-1, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ronan, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 22, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Bolkow
Model
PHOEBUS A-1 · all PHOEBUS A-1s and related versions
Serial number
741
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A12A84 (octal 50225204)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 12, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 22, 1968
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00132380

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Foster John G
Type
Individual
Address
34377 Spring Creek Rd
Ronan, MT 59864-9083

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

1932-02-11Waco 9 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1741, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Foster John G, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 741 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1741 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco 9 (serial 243, cancelled February 11, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1741. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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