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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 B
N211MS is an Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 B, a glider with no engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Friends Aviation, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility; acrobatic, dated July 29, 2020.
Alexander Schleicher: AS 33 ME
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Alexander Schleicher (Germany)FAA spelling: ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO
- Model
- ASK 21 B · all ASK 21 Bs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass- and carbon-fibre glider. This is how the Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 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
- 21982
- 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
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A1BE5D (octal 50337135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 10, 2026
- 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 · Utility; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code UA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 29, 2020
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01320766
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Friends Aviation
- 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
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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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 N211MS links to the rest of the register
- Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 38 registered
- Alexander Schleicher 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Friends Aviation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 13 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N211MS, 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 Friends Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued July 1, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; acrobatic, dated July 29, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21982 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N211MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 559, cancelled July 8, 2013). 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 N211MS. 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