Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER
N55HG is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Scranton, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 1980 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 18, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia Putzer
- Model
- RF5B SPERBER · all RF5B SPERBERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 51074
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FDC8 (octal 51576710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 1980
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 18, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00913345
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dilse Ted JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7603 135Th Ave SW
Scranton, ND 58653-9554
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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 N55HG, 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 Dilse Ted JR, an individual, certificate issued January 3, 1980, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 18, 1979, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51074 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55HG 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 N55HG. 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