Arlington SISU 1A
N253JB is an Arlington SISU 1A, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Marfa, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated July 12, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arlington
- Model
- SISU 1A · all SISU 1As and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Arlington SISU 1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 110
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A2636D (octal 50461555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2011
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 12, 1977
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00223022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Parker Stephen H
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1773
Marfa, TX 79843-1773
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N253JB links to the rest of the register
- Arlington SISU 1 7 registered
- Arlington 7 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Marfa, TX 30 aircraft registered in this town
- Marfa Municipal · MRF
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Arlington SISU 1 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N253JB.json.
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The public federal record on N253JB, 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 Parker Stephen H, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 1977, 12 years after the 1965 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 110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N253JB 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 N253JB. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data