Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 STANDARD III
N102CS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 STANDARD III, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Thermal Research CORP, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 12, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- G102 STANDARD III · all G102 STANDARD IIIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5616S
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A00C65 (octal 50006145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · December 12, 1983
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00443014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thermal Research CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3520 Hopestill Rd
Pensacola, FL 32503-4246
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
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The public federal record on N102CS, 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 Thermal Research CORP, a corporation, certificate issued April 6, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5616S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N102CS was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Stehl Charles N E 111 (serial 1914, cancelled July 6, 2017); Schweizer HUGHES 269C (serial S1187, cancelled July 23, 1990); Hughes 269C (serial 250398, cancelled December 29, 1980). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N102CS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data