Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau ASTIR CS
N30505 is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau ASTIR CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau
- Model
- ASTIR CS · all ASTIR CSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1279
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A3345B (octal 50632133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 18, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00167301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richter Thomas P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 98 Dana Rd
Buffalo, NY 14216-3513
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N30505, 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 Richter Thomas P, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 18, 2002, 26 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30505 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-7840199, cancelled May 20, 1999); Cessna 177A (serial 17701293, cancelled March 29, 1971). 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]
2 NTSB records under N30505: Accident on October 23, 1997 at Juneau, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on June 18, 1993 at Juneau, AK: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 135
The pilot's intentional flight into adverse weather. Related factors were the low ceilings, mountainous terrain, and self induced pressure by the pilot to complete the flight and return for the evening.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98FA006 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 135
THE PILOT CONTINUING VFR FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, THE CLOUDY WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE PASS, THE PILOT BECOMING DISORIENTED, HIS LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE AREA, THE COMPANY'S INADEQUATE PROCEDURES CONCERNING MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS, AND INSUFFICIENT STANDARDS SET BY THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC93LA096 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