Rolladen-Schneider LS 4A
N245JD is a Rolladen-Schneider LS 4A, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated August 21, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS 4A · all LS 4As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4329
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A2435E (octal 50441536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · August 21, 1989
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00770123
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stallman Jon M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4 Budlee Ct
Chico, CA 95928-9477
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 N245JD, 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 Stallman Jon M, an individual, certificate issued August 2, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 21, 1989, 6 years after the 1983 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 4329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N245JD 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]
2 NTSB records under N245JD: Accident on August 7, 1994 at Cannan, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 26, 1984 at Pepperell, MA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rolladen-Schneider LS-4A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL AND INFLIGHT COLLISION WITH TERRAIN. FACTORS WERE A LOSS OF LIFT AND THE PILOT'S IN-FLIGHT DECISION TO MANEUVER TOO CLOSE TO THE RIDGE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94LA155 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rolladen-Schneider LS-4A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA188 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