Schleicher ASW-28
N280E is a Schleicher ASW-28, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to L/D Max Sales LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 27, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-28 · all ASW-28s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28033
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2CE5F (octal 50547137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 27, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00143987
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- L/D Max Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 725 SW Higgins Ave Ste C
Missoula, MT 59803-1420
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N280E, 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 L/D Max Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 16, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N280E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 560 (serial 207, cancelled July 18, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N280E: Accident on June 17, 2016 at Cuddybackville, NY: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW 28 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain the glide path required for landing in the off-field landing zone.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA342 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
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