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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Sportavia-Putzer SFS31
N55JC is a Sportavia-Putzer SFS31, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bb Lsa Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 7, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia-Putzer
- Model
- SFS31
- Serial number
- 6605
- 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 · Rectimo 4AR 1200 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FDDD (octal 51576735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1981
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00423355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bb Lsa Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N55JC links to the rest of the register
- Sportavia-Putzer 14 aircraft on the register
- Rectimo 4AR 1200 11 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Bb Lsa Aviation INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,377 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,967 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N55JC, 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 Bb Lsa Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 8, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1981, 11 years after the 1970 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6605 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55JC 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 N55JC. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data