Schleicher ASW-20
N288 is a Schleicher ASW-20, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 17, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-20 · all ASW-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20463
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A2EBB2 (octal 50565662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · September 17, 1982
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00080782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taylor Nathan R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3040 Brookview Forest Dr
Nashville, TN 37211-7049
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N288, 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 Taylor Nathan R, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 17, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20463 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N288 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Enstrom F-28F (serial 742, cancelled February 5, 1992); Boeing 40B (serial 899, cancelled February 27, 1935). 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 N288: Accident on July 11, 1989 at Oakland, CA: 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: Enstrom F28F · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO PROPERLY MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM THROUGHOUT THE AUTOROTATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA238 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data