Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E
N66RF is a Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E, a glider with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Zero Sink INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 16, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Valentin Gmbh
- Model
- TAIFUN 17E · all TAIFUN 17Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1112
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach LIMBACH L2000 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8B35D (octal 52131535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2019
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 16, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00238568
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zero Sink INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 76 Lynthwaite Farm Ln
Wilmington, DE 19803-1545
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N66RF, 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 Zero Sink INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 25, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1112 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N66RF 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 N66RF. 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