Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G109
N96BG is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G109, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 1994 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 8, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- G109 · all G109s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6028
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AD59ED (octal 53254755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 1994
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 8, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00364390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Berson Bill J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 254 Haada Laas Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N96BG, 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 Berson Bill J, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 1994, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated February 8, 1983, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96BG 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 N96BG. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data