Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 ASTIR CS
N137SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 ASTIR CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Greater Houston Soaring Association, a corporation in Needville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2005 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 8, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- G102 ASTIR CS · all G102 ASTIR CSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1348
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A096D3 (octal 50113323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2005
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · May 8, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00181510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Greater Houston Soaring Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 22802 Cessna Rd
Needville, TX 77461-9498
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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 N137SS, 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 Greater Houston Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued August 17, 2005, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 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 1348 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N137SS 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 N137SS: Accident on October 11, 2025 at Wallis, TX: no 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 Flugzeugbau G102 ASTIR CS · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control during landing roll that resulted in an impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA018 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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