Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK
N118BB is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Franconia Soaring Association, a corporation in Franconia, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility; glider, dated April 28, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- L-23 SUPER BLANIK · all L-23 SUPER BLANIKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 938026
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A04A06 (octal 50045006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility; Glider · April 28, 1994
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00474832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franconia Soaring Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 956
Franconia, NH 03580-0956
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N118BB, 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 Franconia Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 938026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N118BB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N118BB. 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