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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Let BLANIK L-13
N1973C is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Red Wing Soaring Association, a corporation in Osceola, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated November 2, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- BLANIK L-13 · all BLANIK L-13s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Let BLANIK L-13 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
- 025725
- 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
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A184F0 (octal 50302360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 2, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00491191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Wing Soaring Association (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- PO Box 891
Osceola, WI 54020-0891
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1973C links to the rest of the register
- Let BLANIK L-13 38 registered
- Let 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Red Wing Soaring Association 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Osceola, WI 34 aircraft registered in this town
- L O Simenstad Municipal · OEO
- Wisconsin 6,166 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Let BLANIK L-13 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Let BLANIK L-13 6 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1973C, 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 Red Wing Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2006, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 2, 2006, 33 years after the 1973 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 025725 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1973C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Petiletky Strojirny Prvni Np L-13 BLANIK (serial 025725, cancelled September 18, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1973C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data