RapidFlight M2 GLIDER
N251GL is a RapidFlight M2 GLIDER, a glider with no engine. It is unmanned. It is registered to Rapidflight Holdings LLC, an LLC in Manassas, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- RapidFlight (United States)FAA spelling: RAPIDFLIGHT HOLDINGS LLC
- Model
- M2 GLIDER · all M2 GLIDERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A25BD6 (octal 50455726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01387302
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rapidflight Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9617 Center St
Manassas, VA 20110-5521
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.
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The public federal record on N251GL, 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 Rapidflight Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N251GL 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]
1 NTSB record under N251GL: Accident on August 19, 1998 at Denver, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 1900D · operated under 121
Debonding of the propeller erosion shield due to an improper overhaul and repair by other maintenance personnel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98FA364 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data