Diamond Aircraft HK 36 TC
N526TC is a Diamond Aircraft HK 36 TC, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N526Tc LLC, an LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 22, 1999.
Diamond Aircraft: eDA40 electric trainer, Austria
Aircraft
- Maker
- Diamond Aircraft (Austria)FAA spelling: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT IND GMBH
- Model
- HK 36 TC · all HK 36 TCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 36626
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A6A0E4 (octal 51520344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 22, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00445722
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N526Tc LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1808 N Hudson Ave
Chicago, IL 60614-5202
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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 N526TC, 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 N526Tc LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 31, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated July 22, 1999, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36626 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N526TC 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 N526TC: Accident on July 20, 2016 at Blanchester, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind GMBH HK 36 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the powered glider during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA391 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