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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Distar Cz A S SAMBA XXL
N493SW is a Distar Cz A S SAMBA XXL, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 23, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Distar Cz A S
- Model
- SAMBA XXL
- Serial number
- SAXLD 114
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A61CE2 (octal 51416342)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 23, 2022
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01358852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
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.
Connections how N493SW links to the rest of the register
- Distar Cz A S 8 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulb, burned out · 2003-05-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2003-05-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Warning System, activated · 2002-10-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N493SW.json.
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The public federal record on N493SW, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for glider, dated April 23, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SAXLD 114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N493SW 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 N493SW. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data