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N169SS

Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau SPEED ASTIR II

Valid Florida

N169SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau SPEED ASTIR II, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Lakeland Aero Club INC, a corporation in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 10, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
Model
SPEED ASTIR II · all SPEED ASTIR IIs and related versions
Serial number
5047S
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A114BE (octal 50212276)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 15, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · July 10, 1980
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00992230

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lakeland Aero Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3952 James C Ray Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-1267

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N169SS, 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 Lakeland Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 15, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5047S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N169SS 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 N169SS. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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