Sportavia-Putzer SFS31
N6588 is a Sportavia-Putzer SFS31, a glider with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mckinney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 3, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportavia-Putzer
- Model
- SFS31
- Serial number
- 6611
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rectimo 4AR 1200 · 40 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A8ADE2 (octal 52126742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · May 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00932746
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Deffner Gerhard Paul Heinrich
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 108 1/2 W Virginia St
Mckinney, TX 75069-4423
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6588, 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 Deffner Gerhard Paul Heinrich, an individual, certificate issued May 9, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6611 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6588 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Becker Lawrence D BECKER VP-2 (serial 100, cancelled April 2, 2001); Grumman G-164A (serial 729, cancelled August 16, 1974); Aeromarine Aircraft Corp 39-B (serial 294, cancelled March 11, 1930). 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 N6588. 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