Schleicher ASW27-18
N291SV is a Schleicher ASW27-18, a glider with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 6, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 3:17 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW27-18 · all ASW27-18s 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 Schleicher ASW-27 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
- 29005
- 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
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A2FAD5 (octal 50575325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2024
- 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 6, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00261789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kini Vivekanand R
- 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
- 1272 van Dyck Dr
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-2845
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N291SV links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher ASW-27 90 registered
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Sunnyvale, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Where N291SV is now · Last seen October 9 at 3:17 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N291SV.json.
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The public federal record on N291SV, 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 Kini Vivekanand R, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 6, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N291SV 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 N291SV. 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