Schleicher ASW-20
N4804W is a Schleicher ASW-20, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hereford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 19, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-20 · all ASW-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20272
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5EB92 (octal 51365622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 19, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00850175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paetzold Larry E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4302 Fm 1062
Hereford, TX 79045-7236
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4804W, 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 Paetzold Larry E, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2008, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4804W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 114 (serial 14124, cancelled March 22, 1979). 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 N4804W: Accident on July 4, 2000 at Gregory, MI: serious 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: Schleicher ASW-20L · operated under 091
the control stick movement being restricted by the pilot's seat-type parachute and the excessive descent rate and airspeed during landing. A factor to the accident was the pilot's lack of familiarity with the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00LA188 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