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N800AP

Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh DG-800S

N800AP is a Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh DG-800S, a glider with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Garden Grove, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 14, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Dg-Flugzeugbau Gmbh
Model
DG-800S · all DG-800Ss and related versions
Serial number
8-286S52
Type
Glider
Power
None, 1 motor · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
AAE1EB (octal 52560753)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · January 14, 2003
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00022579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Darling Dirk J
Type
Individual
Address
8891 Boyd Ave
Garden Grove, CA 92844-2634

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N800AP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Darling Dirk J, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 14, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8-286S52 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N800AP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N800AP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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