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N39SZ

Alexander Schleicher AS 33 ME

Valid Electric gliderElectricSouth Carolina

N39SZ is an Alexander Schleicher AS 33 ME, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2026. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 26, 2026.

Alexander Schleicher: AS 33 ME

Aircraft

Maker
Alexander Schleicher (Germany)
FAA spelling: ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO
Model
AS 33 ME
Serial number
33541
Type
Glider
Power
Electric, 1 motor · Schleicher EA911/1-35LK · 33 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2026
Transponder code
A48218 (octal 51101030)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 23, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 23, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · June 26, 2026
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01564055

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Zimmerman Sam R III
Type
Individual
Address
4 Thornbury Ct
Greenville, SC 29607-3762

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N39SZ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Zimmerman Sam R III, an individual, certificate issued June 23, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 26, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33541 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N39SZ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N39SZ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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