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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Rolladen-Schneider Ohg LS3-A
N26LS is a Rolladen-Schneider Ohg LS3-A, a glider with no engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated July 14, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider Ohg
- Model
- LS3-A · all LS3-As and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Rolladen-Schneider Ohg LS-3 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
- 3447
- 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
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A27DAF (octal 50476657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 14, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673192
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gadomski David M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3920 Martin Rd SW
Albuquerque, NM 87105-6174
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N26LS links to the rest of the register
- Rolladen-Schneider Ohg LS-3 27 registered
- Rolladen-Schneider Ohg 39 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolladen-Schneider Ohg LS-3 3 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N26LS.json.
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The public federal record on N26LS, 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 Gadomski David M, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated July 14, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3447 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26LS 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 N26LS. 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