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N24WA

Schleicher ASW-20

Valid Arizona

N24WA is a Schleicher ASW-20, a glider with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chandler, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 3, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
ASW-20 · all ASW-20s and related versions
Serial number
20488
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1982
Transponder code
A22F9B (octal 50427633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 6, 2006
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · February 3, 1982
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00632522

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Purcell David S
Type
Individual
Address
4306 W Venus Way
Chandler, AZ 85226-3729

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 N24WA, 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 Purcell David S, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2006, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 3, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N24WA 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 N24WA. 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