Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd T59C KESTREL
N5945 is a Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd T59C KESTREL, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eugene, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 9, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd
- Model
- T59C KESTREL
- Serial number
- 1739
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A7AF4A (octal 51727512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 9, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01158671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grant Richard M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29750 Willow Creek Rd Apt 229
Eugene, OR 97402-8901
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5945, 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 Grant Richard M, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 9, 2015, 44 years after the 1971 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 1739 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5945 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dornier DO 27 (serial 184, cancelled August 10, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5945. 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