Schliecher ASW-20CL
N277D is a Schliecher ASW-20CL, a glider with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Franconia, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 17, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schliecher
- Model
- ASW-20CL
- Serial number
- 20849
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A2C0C8 (octal 50540310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · December 17, 1986
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00462657
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- David James R JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 279
Franconia, NH 03580-0279
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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 N277D, 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 David James R JR, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 17, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20849 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N277D 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 N277D. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data