Glasflugel KESTREL
N9919 is a Glasflugel KESTREL, a glider with no engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 18, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Glasflugel
- Model
- KESTREL · all KESTRELs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- ADD9ED (octal 53354755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 18, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00283480
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phelps Thomas L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5704 Bramblewood Dr
Raleigh, NC 27612-2290
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9919, 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 Phelps Thomas L, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 18, 1971, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9919 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air S-2000 (serial 1109, cancelled April 15, 1934). 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 N9919: Accident on March 5, 2026 at Little Switzerland, NC: minor 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: Glasflugel KESTREL · operated under 091
A loss of thermal lift during a glider flight, which resulted in a collision with trees during a landing approach to a diversionary airport.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA138 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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