Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II
N3981C is a Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Northern California Soaring Association, a corporation in Byron, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 1996 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 25, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G 103 TWIN II · all G 103 TWIN IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3807
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A4A2FF (octal 51121377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 1996
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 25, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00430824
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northern California Soaring Association
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- PO Box 26
Byron, CA 94514-0026
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.
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The public federal record on N3981C, 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 Northern California Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued June 25, 1996, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 25, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3807 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3981C 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]
1 NTSB record under N3981C: Accident on December 8, 2013 at Bryon, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 TWIN II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate wing clearance from a runway sign while taxiing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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