Schleicher ASW-28
N40486 is a Schleicher ASW-28, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2001 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-28 · all ASW-28s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28013
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A4BF0C (octal 51137414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 2001
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · February 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00603844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clerx Bernard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 5352
Newport Beach, CA 92662-5352
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40486, 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 Clerx Bernard C, an individual, certificate issued August 3, 2001, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 26, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40486 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 727-22 (serial 18848, cancelled November 15, 1996); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305207, cancelled April 11, 1974). 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 N40486: Incident on December 20, 1990 at Denver, CO: no 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: Boeing 727-22 · operated under 121
FAILURE OF AN ENGINE BEARING.
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 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