Let L 33 SOLO
N261BA is a Let L 33 SOLO, a glider with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Illini Glider Club, a corporation in Danville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility; glider, dated April 6, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- L 33 SOLO · all L 33 SOLOs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Let L 33 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
- 940209
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A282CE (octal 50501316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2024
- 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; GliderFAA certificate purpose code UG (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 6, 1994
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00324802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Illini Glider Club (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 22633 N Bowman Ave Ste 16
Danville, IL 61834-7459
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N261BA links to the rest of the register
- Let L 33 40 registered
- Let 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Illini Glider Club 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Danville, IL 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Vermilion Regional · DNV
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Let L 33 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Let L 33 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N261BA, 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 Illini Glider Club, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; glider, dated April 6, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 940209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N261BA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N261BA. 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