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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Schleicher K 6 CR
N48486 is a Schleicher K 6 CR, a glider with no engine, built in 1959. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Imperial Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 28, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- K 6 CR
- Serial number
- 643
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A5FB04 (octal 51375404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 28, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00076639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ploog Peter S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 482 7Th St
Imperial Beach, CA 91932-1404
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N48486 links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Imperial Beach, CA 6 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N48486, 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 Ploog Peter S, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 28, 2004, 45 years after the 1959 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 643 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48486 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B (serial 46B, cancelled May 27, 1998); Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-5583, cancelled January 17, 1949). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48486. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data