Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE
N2972 is a Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Thomasville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 18, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glasflugel
- Model
- STANDARD LIBELLE · all STANDARD LIBELLEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 282
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A31219 (octal 50611031)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · May 18, 1972
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00310863
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Macveigh John D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5075 Admire Rd
Thomasville, PA 17364-9696
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2972, 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 Macveigh John D, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated May 18, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 282 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2972 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Van Valkenburgh R E DRAGONFLY (serial 11, cancelled February 6, 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]
1 NTSB record under N2972: Accident on July 24, 1995 at Red River, NM: no 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: Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S LACK OF COMPENSATION FOR THE TAILWIND AND HIS ENSUING FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT. FACTORS WERE THE LACK OF THERMAL LIFT AND THE TAILWIND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA326 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