Rolladen-Schneider LS-6B
N987DM is a Rolladen-Schneider LS-6B, a glider with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Aurora, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 2, 1989.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 3:49 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS-6B · all LS-6Bs 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 Rolladen-Schneider LS-6 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
- 6190
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- ADC57C (octal 53342574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 2, 1989
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00377228
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boerner Raul Trustee
- 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
- 14088 e Caley Ave
Aurora, CO 80016-3004
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.
Connections how N987DM links to the rest of the register
- Rolladen-Schneider LS-6 30 registered
- Rolladen-Schneider 117 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aurora, CO 116 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolladen-Schneider LS-6 2 airworthiness directives
- Where N987DM is now · Last seen October 9 at 3:49 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N987DM.json.
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The public federal record on N987DM, 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 Boerner Raul Trustee, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 2, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N987DM 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 N987DM. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data