Glasflugel STANDRD LIBELLE 201B
N3872 is a Glasflugel STANDRD LIBELLE 201B, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 7, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glasflugel
- Model
- STANDRD LIBELLE 201B
- Serial number
- 218
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A477E9 (octal 51073751)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 7, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00810464
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiley Earl S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3425 Cartway Ln
Raleigh, NC 27616-9763
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3872, 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 Wiley Earl S, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1975, 4 years after the 1971 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 218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3872 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss JN4D (serial 4321, cancelled July 10, 1930). 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 N3872: Accident on July 26, 2009 at Faribault, MN: 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: Glasflugel Standard Libelle · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to maintain proper airspeed on approach to land.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA475 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