Pilgrim Samuel W Jr RV-6
N56SP is a Pilgrim Samuel W Jr RV-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Glenn Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Wilsonville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 18, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilgrim Samuel W Jr
- Model
- RV-6
- Serial number
- 23088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A7262F (octal 51623057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00235222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glenn Aviation Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 444 Air Park Dr
Wilsonville, AL 35186-5846
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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 N56SP, 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 Glenn Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 18, 2005, 9 years after the 1996 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 23088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56SP 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]
2 NTSB records under N56SP: Accident on July 25, 2009 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 1, 1992 at Jenner, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pilgrim Samuel W JR RV-6 · operated under 091
The failure of the rudder pedal which resulted in the pilot's inability to maintain directional control of the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09LA463 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L-1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92T#A18 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