Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK
N420BA is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- L-23 SUPER BLANIK · all L-23 SUPER BLANIKs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Let L-23 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
- 029007
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4FBB9 (octal 51175671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00984026
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-5937
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
Connections how N420BA links to the rest of the register
- Let L-23 83 registered
- Let 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Civil Air Patrol 468 aircraft in the fleet
- Maxwell Afb, AL 572 aircraft registered in this town
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Let L-23 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Let L-23 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Let L-23 4 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Stick, obstructed · 2011-02-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cable, frayed · 2010-06-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hinge Bracket, cracked · 2010-02-08
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N420BA.json.
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The public federal record on N420BA, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued December 5, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 029007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N420BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ashby Dale LANCAIR 320 (serial 266, cancelled April 22, 1993). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N420BA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data