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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Sportavia 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia Putzer
- Model
- RF5B SPERBER · all RF5B SPERBERs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Fournier motor gliders: all wood. This is how the Sportavia-Putzer RF5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 51074
- 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 · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FDC8 (octal 51576710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 1980
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 18, 1979
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00913345
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dilse Ted JR
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N55HG links to the rest of the register
- Sportavia-Putzer RF5 8 registered
- Sportavia Putzer 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Limbach 1700E 17 aircraft with this engine series · 68 hp
- Scranton, ND 9 aircraft registered in this town
- North Dakota 2,493 aircraft registered
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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]
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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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data