Schleicher Alexander K 7
N4280A is a Schleicher Alexander K 7, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Notasulga, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 31, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher Alexander
- Model
- K 7 · all K 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1138
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A51BB0 (octal 51215660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 31, 1962
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00591934
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wolfe Donald E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1802 Lowe Rd
Notasulga, AL 36866-3835
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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 N4280A, 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 Wolfe Donald E, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 31, 1962, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4280A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4280A. 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 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