Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau SPEED ASTIR II
N161SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau SPEED ASTIR II, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Anderson, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 21, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- SPEED ASTIR II · all SPEED ASTIR IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4009
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0F706 (octal 50173406)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 21, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00031940
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burchel Rick
- Type
- Individual
- 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 N161SS, 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 Burchel Rick, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161SS 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 N161SS: Accident on April 15, 1982 at Tulare, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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 Flugzeugbah SPEED ASTIR II · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82FA136 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
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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