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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Laister-Kauffman LK-10A
N53625 is a Laister-Kauffman LK-10A, a glider with no engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 25, 1957.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Laister-Kauffman
- Model
- LK-10A · all LK-10As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A glider of wood and fabric, with a steel-tube fuselage frame on some versions. This is how the Laister-Kauffman LK-10 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
- 61
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A6C973 (octal 51544563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · March 25, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00472855
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N53625 links to the rest of the register
- Laister-Kauffman LK-10 12 registered
- Laister-Kauffman 12 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Port Townsend Aero Museum 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Townsend, WA 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Jefferson County International · 0S9
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Laister-Kauffman LK-10 11 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N53625, 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 Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 25, 1957, 14 years after the 1943 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 61 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53625 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 N53625. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data