Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh DG-500MB
N505JL is a Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh DG-500MB, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canyon Lake, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh
- Model
- DG-500MB
- Serial number
- 5E-187B3
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A64D56 (octal 51446526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00565852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coffield Alan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22106 Treasure Island Dr
Canyon Lake, CA 92587-7604
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N505JL, 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 Coffield Alan, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5E-187B3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N505JL 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 N505JL: Accident on June 24, 2012 at Richland, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dg-Flugzeugbau GMBH DG-500MB · operated under 091
The failure of the spoilers to retract because the right wing spoiler’s lower plate became jammed, which resulted in the glider not having enough lift to make it to the runway surface.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data