Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co ASH 26 E
N4500E is a Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co ASH 26 E, a glider with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co
- Model
- ASH 26 E · all ASH 26 Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 26182
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A57479 (octal 51272171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00393857
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owens Russell A Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10761 Brookview Ln
San Diego, CA 92131-1206 - Co-owners
- Owens Lynn P Trustee
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4500E, 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 Owens Russell A Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued November 13, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. 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 26182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4500E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271613, cancelled August 25, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N4500E: Accident on July 18, 1992 at Lake Michigan, MI: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
UNDETERMINED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92FAMS2 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