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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II
N54553 is a Burkhart Grob G 103 TWIN II, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clearville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G 103 TWIN II · all G 103 TWIN IIs 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 Burkhart Grob G-103 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
- 3872-K-113
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6EDA2 (octal 51566642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00753185
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ackley Richard F
- 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
- 814 Allen Rd
Clearville, PA 15535-5641
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N54553 links to the rest of the register
- Burkhart Grob G-103 71 registered
- Burkhart Grob 99 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Clearville, PA 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,188 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Burkhart Grob G-103 28 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N54553.json.
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The public federal record on N54553, 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 Ackley Richard F, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3872-K-113 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54553 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Burkhart Grob/Trampus G 103 TWIN II (serial 3872-K-113-1, cancelled March 30, 2004); Boeing B75N1 (serial 75-1004, cancelled March 1, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N54553: Accident on March 22, 1997 at Lancaster, SC: minor 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: Burkhart Grob G-103-TWIN II · operated under 091
the pilot's improper use of the spoilers, while approaching to land, which allowed the glider to get low on final approach and strike trees. The pilot's lack of recent flying experience and lack of experience in the make and model of glider were related factors.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data