Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3
N48CW is a Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Layton, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 16, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh
- Model
- LS-3 · all LS-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3196
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A5E687 (octal 51363207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · May 16, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00300135
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hibbard Bruce A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3261 N Layton Ridge Dr
Layton, UT 84040-7121
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N48CW, 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 Hibbard Bruce A, an individual, certificate issued July 14, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated May 16, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48CW 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]
1 NTSB record under N48CW: Accident on June 11, 2006 at Buena Vista, CO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control resulting in an inadvertent stall/mush. Contributing to the accident was the downdraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN06CA086 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data