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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Stemme Ag STEMME S 12
N281KR is a Stemme Ag STEMME S 12, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Adams Aviation Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 27, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stemme Ag
- Model
- STEMME S 12 · all STEMME S 12s 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 carbon-fibre motor glider. This is how the Stemme Ag STEMME S 12 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
- 12-047
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Brp-Rotax 914 F2 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A2D2A3 (octal 50551243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 11, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 27, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01389133
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adams Aviation Services INC Trustee
- 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
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N281KR links to the rest of the register
- Stemme Ag STEMME S 12 27 registered
- Stemme Ag 38 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Brp-Rotax 914 F2 20 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Adams Aviation Services INC Trustee 64 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Stemme Ag STEMME S 12 8 airworthiness directives
- FAA orders naming the Brp-Rotax 914 F2 15 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N281KR, 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 Adams Aviation Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued April 13, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated February 27, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-047 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281KR 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 N281KR. 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