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A Rolladen-Schneider LS-4, the same model family as N402K
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N402K

Rolladen-Schneider LS-4

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaryland

N402K is a Rolladen-Schneider LS-4, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spring Gap, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 16, 1985.

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Aircraft

Maker
Rolladen-Schneider
Model
LS-4 · all LS-4s and related versions
Built of
composite
The airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Rolladen-Schneider LS-4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
4009
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 · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A4B4F0 (octal 51132360)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 10, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
April 24, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 16, 1985
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00191044

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blace Mark P
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 21
Spring Gap, MD 21560-0021
Co-owners
Moses Charles A

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

1948-02-02Fleet 2 · Valid registration

Connections how N402K links to the rest of the register

Design
Place
  • Spring Gap, MD 2 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maryland 2,348 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N402K.json.

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The public federal record on N402K, 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 Blace Mark P, a co-owned, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 16, 1985, 4 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N402K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fleet 2 (serial 125, cancelled February 2, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N402K. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data