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N99809

Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER

Valid Colorado

N99809 is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N99809 LLC, an LLC in Boulder, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built; exhibition, dated May 18, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Sportavia Putzer
Model
RF5B SPERBER · all RF5B SPERBERs and related versions
Serial number
51060
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
ADF2D5 (octal 53371325)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 4, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 4, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built; Exhibition · May 18, 1978
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00213290

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N99809 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
105 Eagles Dr
Boulder, CO 80302-9787

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N99809, 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 N99809 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 4, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 1978, 3 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N99809 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 N99809. 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