Alexander Schleicher ASK 21
N221CW is an Alexander Schleicher ASK 21, a glider with no engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Central Indiana Soaring Society, a corporation in Yorktown, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated January 8, 2016.
Alexander Schleicher: AS 33 ME
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alexander Schleicher (Germany)FAA spelling: ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO
- Model
- ASK 21 · all ASK 21s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21931
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A1E4FF (octal 50362377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · January 8, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01201016
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Indiana Soaring Society
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 266
Yorktown, IN 47396-0266
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N221CW, 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 Central Indiana Soaring Society, a corporation, certificate issued January 5, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated January 8, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N221CW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 2060, cancelled August 10, 1998). 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]
1 NTSB record under N221CW: Accident on March 23, 1996 at Fairfield, NJ: no injuries, substantial 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: Robinson R22-BETA · operated under 091
the flight instructor's inadequate supervision in that he delayed corrective action in recovering the low rotor RPM resulting in a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC96LA077 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
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