Rolladen-Schneider LS 7
N44340 is a Rolladen-Schneider LS 7, a glider with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Auburndale, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 1, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS 7 · all LS 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7041
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A558BF (octal 51254277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · April 1, 1998
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00487101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Carl A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 150 Islington Rd
Auburndale, MA 02466-1010
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N44340, 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 Johnson Carl A, an individual, certificate issued August 10, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 1, 1998, 9 years after the 1989 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44340 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D1 (serial 10140, cancelled date not given). 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 N44340: Accident on June 28, 1985 at Mundelein, IL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Taylorcraft BC12-D1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85FA259 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