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N120BL

Schleicher ASW-20

Pending cancellation New York

N120BL is a Schleicher ASW-20, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elmira, New York. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending, pending cancellation". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated November 2, 1979. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
ASW-20 · all ASW-20s and related versions
Serial number
20105
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A053D6 (octal 50051726)

Registration

Status
Registration pending, pending cancellation
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 24, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · November 2, 1979
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00450862

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
265 Lew Storch Rd
Elmira, NY 14903-9345

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

2026-09-08Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1995-04-07Mc Moran Darrell W MONI · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 3 to understand · 1 clear

The public federal record on N120BL, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N120BL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mc Moran Darrell W MONI (serial 00066, cancelled April 7, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N120BL: Accident on August 11, 1984 at El Dorado, AR: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MKC84LA247Accident on August 11, 1984 at El Dorado, AR: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 66

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Darrell W. Mc Moran MONNETT MONI · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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