Glaser-Dirks DG-400
N400GD is a Glaser-Dirks DG-400, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Columbia, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 1986 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 3, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glaser-Dirks
- Model
- DG-400 · all DG-400s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4-98
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A4AD3B (octal 51126473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 1986
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 3, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00100685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blacklin Peter A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11391 Barrow Downs
Columbia, MD 21044 - Co-owners
- Blacklin Dorothy
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N400GD, 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 Blacklin Peter A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 21, 1986, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated January 3, 1985, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N400GD 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 N400GD. 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