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N44BT

Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE

Valid Texas

N44BT is a Glasflugel STANDARD LIBELLE, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cresson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 17, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Glasflugel
Model
STANDARD LIBELLE · all STANDARD LIBELLEs and related versions
Serial number
200
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A5486F (octal 51244157)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 3, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 3, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · December 17, 1971
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00382334

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Welsh Christopher R
Type
Individual
Address
137 Constellation Dr
Cresson, TX 76035-5839

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 N44BT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Welsh Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued June 3, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated December 17, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N44BT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N44BT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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