Glaser-Dirks DG-500M
N88DM is a Glaser-Dirks DG-500M, a glider with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spring Hill, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Glaser-Dirks
- Model
- DG-500M · all DG-500Ms and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Glaser-Dirks DG-500 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5E97M43
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC1BD3 (octal 53015723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00924542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garcia Roberto P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11581 Pilot Country Dr
Spring Hill, FL 34610-7920
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N88DM links to the rest of the register
- Glaser-Dirks DG-500 6 registered
- Glaser-Dirks 37 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Spring Hill, FL 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Glaser-Dirks DG-500 27 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88DM.json.
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The public federal record on N88DM, 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 Garcia Roberto P, an individual, certificate issued November 2, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5E97M43 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421B (serial 421B0574, cancelled February 16, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N88DM: Accident on September 13, 1985 at Olathe, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 421B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data