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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Schleicher ASW-17
N52F is a Schleicher ASW-17, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated October 17, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-17 · all ASW-17s 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 Schleicher ASW-17 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
- 17020
- 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
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 102 mph
- Transponder code
- A68712 (octal 51503422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2004
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00572285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Purves Keith C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16305 SE 130Th St
Renton, WA 98059-8633
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N52F links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher ASW-17 5 registered
- Schleicher 506 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Renton, WA 324 aircraft registered in this town
- Renton Municipal · RNT
- Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base · W36
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schleicher ASW-17 3 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N52F, 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 Purves Keith C, an individual, certificate issued October 19, 2004, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 17, 1979, 6 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52F 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 N52F. 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