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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Herbert A Sanders XENOS GLIDER
N50HM is a Herbert A Sanders XENOS GLIDER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 7, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Herbert A Sanders
- Model
- XENOS GLIDER
- Serial number
- X0027
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
- Transponder code
- A63852 (octal 51434122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 17, 2025
- 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 · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 7, 2017
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01249973
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sickler Stephen D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 311 Pedrick Rd
Nicholson, PA 18446-8136
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N50HM links to the rest of the register
- Herbert A Sanders 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300A 161 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Nicholson, PA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,188 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Armature, cracked · 1995-07-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brush, excess wear · 1995-03-21
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The public federal record on N50HM, 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 Sickler Stephen D, an individual, certificate issued November 17, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 7, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial X0027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N50HM 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 N50HM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data