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N55RN

Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER

Valid Oregon

N55RN is a Sportavia Putzer RF5B SPERBER, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gold Hill, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 1974 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 15, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Sportavia Putzer
Model
RF5B SPERBER
Serial number
51026
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A6FE96 (octal 51577226)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 6, 1974
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · January 15, 1980
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00533375

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Richards William B
Type
Co-owned
Address
9019 Hardy Way
Gold Hill, OR 97525
Co-owners
Sinko James W

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