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N897NQ

Pipistrel SINUS 912 LSA

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N897NQ is a Pipistrel SINUS 912 LSA, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riviera Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 26, 2019.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pipistrel (Slovenia)
FAA spelling: PIPISTREL ITALIA S R L
Model
SINUS 912 LSA · all SINUS 912 LSAs and related versions
Serial number
953 SNM 912 LSA
Type
Glider
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL2 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2018
Transponder code
AC6090 (octal 53060220)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 17, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 17, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sport · Glider · February 26, 2019
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01291618

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Brettler Daniel S
Type
Individual
Address
4600 N Ocean Dr Apt 405
Riviera Beach, FL 33404-2675

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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 N897NQ, 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 Brettler Daniel S, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for glider, dated February 26, 2019, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 953 SNM 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N897NQ 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 N897NQ. 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