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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Bolkow PHOEBUS
N9PY is a Bolkow PHOEBUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to L23 LLC, an LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated October 8, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bolkow
- Model
- PHOEBUS
- Serial number
- 734
- 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
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6BD6 (octal 53065726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · October 8, 1982
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00270020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- L23 LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4130 Earl Grey Ct
Raleigh, NC 27612-2323
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9PY links to the rest of the register
- Bolkow 27 aircraft on the register
- L23 LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Raleigh, NC 350 aircraft registered in this town
- Southern Wake Regional · 5W5
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9PY.json.
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The public federal record on N9PY, 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 L23 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 8, 1982, 16 years after the 1966 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9PY 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 N9PY. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data