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N224WK

Schleicher ASW-24

N224WK is a Schleicher ASW-24, a glider with no engine, built in 1988. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Black Mountain, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 9, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
ASW-24 · all ASW-24s and related versions
Serial number
24027
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
1988
Transponder code
A1F1DB (octal 50370733)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 9, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 9, 1989
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00964651

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcginnis Richard A
Type
Individual
Address
1551 Mountain Cove Rd
Black Mountain, NC 28711-0557

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N224WK, 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 Mcginnis Richard A, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 9, 1989, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N224WK 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 N224WK. 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