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N1618, a Schleicher AS-K13
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026
N1618

Schleicher AS-K13

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N1618 is a Schleicher AS-K13, a glider with no engine, built in 1967. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Knauff & Grove INC, a corporation in Julian, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 20, 1967.

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Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
AS-K13 · all AS-K13s and related versions
Built of
steel tube, wood and fabric
A 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 AS-K13 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
13033
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
1967
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A0F8D5 (octal 50174325)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 8, 2004
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 20, 1967
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00541950

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Knauff & Grove 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
3523 S Eagle Valley Rd
Julian, PA 16844-9032

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N1618 links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Julian, PA 2 aircraft registered in this town
  • Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N1618, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Knauff & Grove INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 8, 2004, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 20, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1618 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1618. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data