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N721DM

Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E

N721DM is a Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Murphy, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2010 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 23, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Valentin Gmbh
Model
TAIFUN 17E
Serial number
1005
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach LIMBACH L2000 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1983
Transponder code
A9A79A (octal 52323632)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 30, 2010
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · July 23, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00634087

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Davis Gary J
Type
Individual
Address
658 Sierra Cir
Murphy, NC 28906-8916

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

1994-11-17Mitsubishi MU-2B-25 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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