Let BLANIK L-13
N52AS is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cascade Soaring Society, a corporation in East Wenatchee, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 1, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- BLANIK L-13 · all BLANIK L-13s and related versions
- Serial number
- 027056
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A686A6 (octal 51503246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2001
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 1, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00322275
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cascade Soaring Society
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Pangborn Dr # L
East Wenatchee, WA 98802-9233
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.
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The public federal record on N52AS, 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 Cascade Soaring Society, a corporation, certificate issued October 23, 2001, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated August 1, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 027056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52AS 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]
2 NTSB records under N52AS: Accident on August 19, 1997 at Hamilton, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 26, 1993 at Clinton, MT: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Let BLANIK L-13 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive speed taxispeed and failure to maintain wing clearance from a taxiway sign.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA194 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Let BLANIK L-13 · operated under 091
TOTAL FAILURE OF THE TOW EQUIPMENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93LA216 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