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N899DC

Windward SPARROW HAWK

Valid New York

N899DC is a Windward SPARROW HAWK, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to National Soaring Museum, a corporation in Elmira, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 10, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Windward
Model
SPARROW HAWK
Serial number
SH-5
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC6711 (octal 53063421)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 19, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · October 10, 2008
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01010719

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
National Soaring Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
51 Soaring Hill Dr
Elmira, NY 14903-9204

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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 N899DC, 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 National Soaring Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 19, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH-5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N899DC 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 N899DC. 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