Burkhart Grob G103C TWIN III SL
N493SL is a Burkhart Grob G103C TWIN III SL, a glider with no engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to White Sands Soaring Foundation (Wssf), a corporation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 20, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G103C TWIN III SL · all G103C TWIN III SLs and related versions
- Serial number
- 35027
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A61CD8 (octal 51416330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 20, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00314372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Sands Soaring Foundation (Wssf)
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3500 Airport Rd # 14
Alamogordo, NM 88310-8126
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N493SL, 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 White Sands Soaring Foundation (Wssf), a corporation, certificate issued May 17, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated May 20, 1993, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 35027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N493SL 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 N493SL. 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 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