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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Stemme Gmbh & Co S10-VT
N501LD is a Stemme Gmbh & Co S10-VT, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dustdevil INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 14, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stemme Gmbh & Co
- Model
- S10-VT · all S10-VTs 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 carbon-fibre motor glider. This is how the Stemme Gmbh & Co S-10 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
- 11-050
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A63EA5 (octal 51437245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 14, 2000
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00146000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dustdevil INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N501LD links to the rest of the register
- Stemme Gmbh & Co S-10 37 registered
- Stemme Gmbh & Co 42 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) 2,587 aircraft with this engine series
- Dustdevil INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Stemme Gmbh & Co S-10 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N501LD, 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 Dustdevil INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 16, 2008, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated September 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11-050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N501LD 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 N501LD. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data