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Schleicher ASK-21
N474KS is a Schleicher ASK-21, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Valley Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Middletown, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 8, 1984.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASK-21 · all ASK-21s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schleicher ASK-21 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
- 21197
- 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 · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A5D0E8 (octal 51350350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 8, 1984
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00083534
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Soaring Club INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- PO Box 3062
Middletown, NY 10940-0659
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N474KS links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher ASK-21 43 registered
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Valley Soaring Club INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, NY 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Randall Airport · 06N
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N474KS.json.
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The public federal record on N474KS, 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 Valley Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 9, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated February 8, 1984, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N474KS 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 N474KS. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data