Slingsby DART T.51
N179E is a Slingsby DART T.51, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 1987 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Slingsby
- Model
- DART T.51 · all DART T.51s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1471
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A13B00 (octal 50235400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 1987
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 1, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00252490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoke Michael J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2755 Classic Dr
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126-5071 - Co-owners
- Hoke Janice F
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N179E, 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 Hoke Michael J, a co-owned, certificate issued September 28, 1987, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N179E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing Airplane Co 40-B-4 (serial 1097, cancelled February 21, 1936). 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 N179E. 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