Aerotechnik L13 SE VIVAT
N320BA is an Aerotechnik L13 SE VIVAT, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Staunton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 28, 1997. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotechnik
- Model
- L13 SE VIVAT · all L13 SE VIVATs and related versions
- Serial number
- 970529
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A36E6A (octal 50667152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · November 28, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00846821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Root Franklin L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 130 Root Ln
Staunton, VA 24401-9376
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N320BA, 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 Root Franklin L, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 28, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 970529 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N320BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 99 (serial U56, cancelled February 11, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 11, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N320BA: Incident on June 9, 1984 at Chicago, IL: minor injuries, minor 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: Beech 99 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84IA224 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