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N304BS

Hph Ltd GLASFLUGEL 304CZ

Valid Virginia

N304BS is a Hph Ltd GLASFLUGEL 304CZ, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springfield, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 15, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Hph Ltd
Model
GLASFLUGEL 304CZ · all GLASFLUGEL 304CZs and related versions
Serial number
27
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A32E58 (octal 50627130)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 7, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · November 15, 2000
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00943695

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bates Matthew T
Type
Individual
Address
7503 June St
Springfield, VA 22150-3926

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N304BS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bates Matthew T, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated November 15, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N304BS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N304BS: Accident on August 21, 2026 at Xenia, OH: no injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA26LA311Accident on August 21, 2026 at Xenia, OH: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hph LTD GLASFLUGEL 304CZ

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA311 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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