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N6588

Sportavia-Putzer SFS31

Valid Texas

N6588 is a Sportavia-Putzer SFS31, a glider with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mckinney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 3, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Sportavia-Putzer
Model
SFS31
Serial number
6611
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rectimo 4AR 1200 · 40 hp
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A8ADE2 (octal 52126742)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 9, 2019
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · May 3, 1980
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00932746

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Deffner Gerhard Paul Heinrich
Type
Individual
Address
108 1/2 W Virginia St
Mckinney, TX 75069-4423

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 3

2001-04-02Becker Lawrence D BECKER VP-2 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1974-08-16Grumman G-164A · Valid registration
1930-03-11Aeromarine Aircraft Corp 39-B · Valid registration

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