Schleicher KA 6 E
N1342 is a Schleicher KA 6 E, a glider with no engine, built in 1967. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 1999 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 20, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- KA 6 E · all KA 6 Es 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 KA 6 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
- 4135
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A08CAB (octal 50106253)
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 23, 1999
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 20, 1977
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00031420
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pfeiffer Neal J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 36 Laurel Dr
Wichita, KS 67206-2541
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1342 links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher KA 6 54 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
- Type certificate 7G1 · held by Alexander Schleicher GMBH & CO. Segelflugzeugbau
- Wichita, KS 1,312 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,737 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schleicher KA 6 7 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schleicher KA 6 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1342, 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 Pfeiffer Neal J, an individual, certificate issued June 23, 1999, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 1977, 10 years after the 1967 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 4135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1342 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 N1342: Accident on July 18, 1992 at Haskell, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher KA6E · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THE WING RUNNERS FAILURE TO KEEP THE RIGHT WING UP.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data