Peterson Sailplane-Poly Ind. J-4
N51FW is a Peterson Sailplane-Poly Ind. J-4, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Peterson Sailplane-Poly Ind.
- Model
- J-4
- Serial number
- 005
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FA8 (octal 51457650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · July 23, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00790855
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Larson Martin B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2310 Arroyo Ct
Rapid City, SD 57702-5112 - Co-owners
- Summers Charles M / Glasford John T / Clark Raymond C
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N51FW, 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 Larson Martin B, a co-owned, certificate issued November 14, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51FW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER (serial 51, cancelled July 14, 1972). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N51FW. 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 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