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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Ica Brasov IS-29D2
N1052W is an Ica Brasov IS-29D2, a glider with no engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kendallville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 28, 1979. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ica Brasov
- Model
- IS-29D2 · all IS-29D2s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Ica Brasov IS-29 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 105
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A019FA (octal 50014772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 28, 1979
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00821260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sprandel James L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 426 N State St
Kendallville, IN 46755-1441
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1052W links to the rest of the register
- Ica Brasov IS-29 5 registered
- Ica Brasov 6 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Kendallville, IN 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Kendallville Municipal · C62
- Big Long Lake Seaplane Base · 56I
- Indiana 5,704 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Ica Brasov IS-29 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1052W.json.
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The public federal record on N1052W, 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 Sprandel James L, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated December 28, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1052W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (serial TC-1537, cancelled September 10, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1052W. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data