Glasflugel CLUB LIBELLE 205
N2520U is a Glasflugel CLUB LIBELLE 205, a glider with no engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Brokenstraw Flyers, a corporation in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 4, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glasflugel
- Model
- CLUB LIBELLE 205
- Serial number
- 43
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A26157 (octal 50460527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 4, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00975760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brokenstraw Flyers
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 134
Pittsfield, PA 16340-0134
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2520U, 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 Brokenstraw Flyers, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 2000, 25 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 43 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2520U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288016028, cancelled December 1, 1992). 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 N2520U: Accident on September 27, 1991 at San Carlos, CA: 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE NUMBER 3 INTAKE VALVE RESULTING IN A TOTAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR LANDING THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA410 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
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