Schleicher ASW-20
N20UZ is a Schleicher ASW-20, a glider with no engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Vail, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 23, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-20 · all ASW-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20016
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A19184 (octal 50310604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · April 23, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00301336
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Earles Craig P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17132 S Painted Vistas Way
Vail, AZ 85641-2436
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.
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The public federal record on N20UZ, 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 Earles Craig P, an individual, certificate issued October 29, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 2004, 26 years after the 1978 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 20016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20UZ 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 N20UZ: Accident on July 3, 1984 at Ephrata, WA: no injuries, minor 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: Schleicher ASW-20 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84LA159 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