Schleicher Alexander K 7
N1002Z is a Schleicher Alexander K 7, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Benton, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 29, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher Alexander
- Model
- K 7 · all K 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 984
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A0076A (octal 50003552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 29, 1961
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00880110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arnold Sarah D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 53
Benton, TN 37307-0053
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.
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The public federal record on N1002Z, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Arnold Sarah D, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 29, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 984 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1002Z according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1002Z: Accident on April 27, 2014 at Benton, TN: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher Alexander K 7 · operated under 091
The pilot's distraction with traffic on the runway, and his subsequent failure to retract the air brakes prior to touchdown, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA215 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data