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N55BG

Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER

N55BG is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Oxford, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 1990 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 30, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Sportavia Putzer
Model
RF5B SPERBER
Serial number
51006
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A6FD32 (octal 51576462)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 5, 1990
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · April 30, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00713365

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chick James E
Type
Individual
Address
13 Hearthside Dr #102
New Oxford, PA 17350

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.

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