Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 ASTIR CS
N128SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 ASTIR CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cardinal Flying LLC, an LLC in Anderson, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 7, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- G102 ASTIR CS · all G102 ASTIR CSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1211
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A0730B (octal 50071413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 7, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00850670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cardinal Flying LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 409 High St
Anderson, IN 46012-3014
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N128SS, 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 Cardinal Flying LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 12, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1979, 3 years after the 1976 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 1211 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N128SS 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 N128SS: Accident on March 10, 1984 at Marana, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Burkhart Grob G102 ASTIR CS · operated under 091
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data