Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II
N3950A is a Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Long Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 1, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G 103 TWIN II · all G 103 TWIN IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3793
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A497B5 (octal 51113665)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 1, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00830694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chapman John P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5214 E Keynote St
Long Beach, CA 90808-2525
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3950A, 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 Chapman John P, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2000, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 1, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3793 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3950A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION (serial NAV4994, cancelled July 15, 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]
1 NTSB record under N3950A: Accident on December 11, 1994 at Tehachapi, CA: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Burkhart Grob G-103 · operated under 091
the pilot's poor in-flight planning/decision and inadequate airspeed. The downdraft and trees were factors in this accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA050 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