Glaser-Dirks DG-500M
N503V is a Glaser-Dirks DG-500M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 2, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glaser-Dirks
- Model
- DG-500M · all DG-500Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 5E24 M12
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A646F0 (octal 51443360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 2, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00394372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kleinhempel Uwe
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 998 Aspen Grove Cir
Minden, NV 89423-4454
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.
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The public federal record on N503V, 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 Kleinhempel Uwe, an individual, certificate issued December 15, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 2014, 24 years after the 1990 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 5E24 M12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N503V 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]
1 NTSB record under N503V: Accident on May 25, 1991 at Minden, NV: no 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: Glaser-Dirks DG-500M · operated under 091
AN ENGINE FAILURE PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THE PILOT IMPROPERLY ADJUSTING THE CARBURETOR MIXTURE JET.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA229 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