Schleicher ASK-21
N120DW is a Schleicher ASK-21, a glider with no engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Arizona Soaring INC, a corporation in Maricopa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated October 17, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASK-21 · all ASK-21s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schleicher ASK-21 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
- 21747
- 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
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A05412 (octal 50052022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00011599
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arizona Soaring 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
- PO Box 858
Maricopa, AZ 85139-0298
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N120DW links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher ASK-21 43 registered
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Arizona Soaring INC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Maricopa, AZ 44 aircraft registered in this town
- Ak-Chin Regional · A39
- Estrella Sailport · E68
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N120DW.json.
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The public federal record on N120DW, 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 Arizona Soaring INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated October 17, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21747 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120DW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 (serial 232, cancelled February 5, 1991). 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 N120DW. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
