Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18
N42DJ is a Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18, a glider with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bonsall, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 11, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS8-18 · all LS8-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8387
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4F99A (octal 51174632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · April 11, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00653877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamilton Claude H III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 788
Bonsall, CA 92003-0788
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42DJ, 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 Hamilton Claude H III, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated April 11, 2003, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42DJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thompson Daniel J LONG EZ TR (serial 1805L, cancelled September 11, 1996). 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 N42DJ: Accident on July 28, 1996 at Yucca Valley, CA: no injuries, substantial 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: Thompson LONG EZ TR · operated under 091
Fuel starvation due to the internal failure of the electric fuel pump and the subsequent fuel flow blockage to the gascolator.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA293 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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