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N2179

Sportavia-Putzer FOURNIER R.F.4.D

N2179 is a Sportavia-Putzer FOURNIER R.F.4.D, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 1974 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 3, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Sportavia-Putzer
Model
FOURNIER R.F.4.D
Serial number
4059
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rectimo 4AR 1200 · 40 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
A1D716 (octal 50353426)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 8, 1974
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · November 3, 1978
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00281592

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Madden William L
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 3178
Las Cruces, NM 88003-3178

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1933-02-13Swallow SWALLOW · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data