Giefer Duane A ARROW II
N5040L is a Giefer Duane A ARROW II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 16, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Giefer Duane A
- Model
- ARROW II
- Serial number
- A11 1833503 TRI
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth 3500 SER · 270 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A64B2F (octal 51445457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 16, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00200609
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glantz Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4437 Kellia Ln NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-4288
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5040L, 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 Glantz Charles, an individual, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 16, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A11 1833503 TRI for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5040L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lake LA-4-200 (serial 497, cancelled August 21, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5040L: Accident on May 9, 1996 at Sunapee, NH: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Lake LA-4-200 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane. Factors in this accident were: the pilot's lack of currency in type and model airplane, and not following the requirement for the pilot to have a flight instructor onboard during water landings.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD96FA074 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