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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Schleicher AS-K13
N11EK is a Schleicher AS-K13, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Eastern Soaring Center INC, a corporation in Petersburg, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated November 8, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- AS-K13 · all AS-K13s 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 AS-K13 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
- 13401
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A02A48 (octal 50025110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · November 8, 1972
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00180990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Soaring Center INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Brian D Collins
42 Bogart Dr
Petersburg, WV 26847-8166
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N11EK links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher AS-K13 14 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
- Eastern Soaring Center INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Petersburg, WV 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Grant County · W99
- West Virginia 885 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schleicher AS-K13 7 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schleicher AS-K13 7 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N11EK, 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 Eastern Soaring Center INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 8, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated November 8, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11EK 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 N11EK: Accident on August 4, 1996 at Thompsonville, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASK-13 · operated under 091
an evasive maneuver necessitated by the tow plane's aborted takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data