Glasflugel KESTREL
N2540 is a Glasflugel KESTREL, a glider with no engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Yucca Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glasflugel
- Model
- KESTREL
- Serial number
- 29
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A268B2 (octal 50464262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 21, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00702992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Huelle Thomas M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 58069 Sun Mesa Dr
Yucca Valley, CA 92284-6688
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 N2540, 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 Huelle Thomas M, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 1972, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2540 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss JN4D (serial CX5, cancelled May 26, 1928). 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 N2540. 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