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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Burkhart 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G103C TWIN III SL · all G103C TWIN III SLs 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 Burkhart Grob G-103 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
- 35027
- 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
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A61CD8 (octal 51416330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 20, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00314372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Sands Soaring Foundation (Wssf)
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N493SL links to the rest of the register
- Burkhart Grob G-103 71 registered
- Burkhart Grob 99 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- White Sands Soaring Foundation (Wssf) 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Alamogordo, NM 57 aircraft registered in this town
- Alamogordo-White Sands Regional · ALM
- Timberon Airport · E02
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Burkhart Grob G-103 28 airworthiness directives
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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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data