Schleicher KA 6 E
N116DS is a Schleicher KA 6 E, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 15, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- KA 6 E · all KA 6 Es and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A glider of wood and fabric, with a steel-tube fuselage frame on some versions. This is how the Schleicher KA 6 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
- 6025
- 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
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A042D9 (octal 50041331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 15, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01383706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stevenson Malcolm D JR
- 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
- 34 Mulberry Loop
Cedar Crest, NM 87008-9439
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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 1
Connections how N116DS links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher KA 6 54 registered
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate 7G1 · held by Alexander Schleicher GMBH & CO. Segelflugzeugbau
- Cedar Crest, NM 10 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schleicher KA 6 7 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schleicher KA 6 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N116DS, 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 Stevenson Malcolm D JR, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2023, 38 years after the 1985 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N116DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ercoupe 415-C (serial 658, cancelled July 20, 2017). 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 N116DS. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data