Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3
N52BW is a Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Louisa, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh
- Model
- LS-3 · all LS-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3198
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A686C3 (octal 51503303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00392285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Neilson William Andrew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 504 Mallorys Ford Rd
Louisa, VA 23093-6157
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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 N52BW, 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 Neilson William Andrew, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 15, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52BW 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 N52BW. 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