Rettig Fred AMERICAN SPIRIT
N42FR is a Rettig Fred AMERICAN SPIRIT, a glider with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ottsville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rettig Fred
- Model
- AMERICAN SPIRIT
- Serial number
- 44
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Kit
- ADVANCED SOARING CONCEPTS INC AMERICAN SPRIT
- Transponder code
- A4F9D3 (octal 51174723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 7, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00204077
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gewanter Alan B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 90 Frogtown Rd
Ottsville, PA 18942-9660
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N42FR, 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 Gewanter Alan B, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 2003, 12 years after the 1991 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 44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42FR 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 N42FR. 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