Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER
N55RN is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gold Hill, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 1974 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 15, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia Putzer
- Model
- RF5B SPERBER · all RF5B SPERBERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 51026
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FE96 (octal 51577226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 1974
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 15, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00533375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards William B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9019 Hardy Way
Gold Hill, OR 97525 - Co-owners
- Sinko James W
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.
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The public federal record on N55RN, 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 Richards William B, a co-owned, certificate issued August 6, 1974, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 1980, 7 years after the 1973 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 51026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55RN 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 N55RN. 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