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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Glaser Dirks DG-800A
N357DV is a Glaser Dirks DG-800A, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 1994 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 20, 1995.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Glaser Dirks
- Model
- DG-800A · all DG-800As 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 Glaser-Dirks DG-800 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
- 8-33 A25
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A3FF2D (octal 50777455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 1994
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 20, 1995
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00665172
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Volkmann David R
- 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
- 640 Meadowgate Ct
Reno, NV 89509-7934
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N357DV links to the rest of the register
- Glaser-Dirks DG-800 5 registered
- Glaser Dirks 21 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Reno, NV 666 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Glaser-Dirks DG-800 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Glaser-Dirks DG-800 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N357DV.json.
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The public federal record on N357DV, 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 Volkmann David R, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 1994, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 20, 1995, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8-33 A25 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N357DV 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 N357DV. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data