Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER
N55SM is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mcminnville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated October 31, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia Putzer
- Model
- RF5B SPERBER · all RF5B SPERBERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 51053
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FEAE (octal 51577256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · October 31, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00433375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gyenes Collin M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 746 SE Debbie St
Mcminnville, OR 97128-9709
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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 N55SM, 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 Gyenes Collin M, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 1995, 21 years after the 1974 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 51053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55SM 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]
1 NTSB record under N55SM: Accident on September 1, 1991 at Lockport, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sportavia-Putzer RF5B · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE GLIDER DURING LANDING. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE TURBULENCE ENCOUNTERED ON APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91LA228 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data