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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Schweizer TG3A
N318YZ is a Schweizer TG3A, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- TG3A · all TG3As and related versions
- Serial number
- 42 52993 73
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A366C7 (octal 50663307)
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 13, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01372282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorensen Bennett
- 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
- 3701 S Fairlawn St
Wichita, KS 67215-1605
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N318YZ links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer TG3 11 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Wichita, KS 1,311 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer TG3 1 airworthiness directives
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N318YZ, 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 Sorensen Bennett, an individual, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42 52993 73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N318YZ 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 N318YZ. 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