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N550SD

Diamond Aircraft HK 36 TTC

Valid Electric airplaneIllinois

N550SD is a Diamond Aircraft HK 36 TTC, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Homer Glen, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 21, 1997.

Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria

Aircraft

Maker
Diamond Aircraft (Austria)
FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES
Model
HK 36 TTC · all HK 36 TTCs and related versions
Serial number
36550
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A700FF (octal 51600377)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 14, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 14, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · November 21, 1997
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00326881

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ward Larry
Type
Individual
Address
10635 W 151St St
Homer Glen, IL 60491

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N550SD, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ward Larry, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated November 21, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N550SD according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N550SD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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