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N57L

Glasflugel 604

Valid Kansas

N57L is a Glasflugel 604, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 13, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Glasflugel
Model
604 · all 604s and related versions
Serial number
8
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A74D0A (octal 51646412)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 12, 1993
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 13, 1993
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00550476

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leonard Steven E
Type
Individual
Address
11117 Westlawn St
Wichita, KS 67212-6411

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N57L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Leonard Steven E, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 1993, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 13, 1993, 20 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N57L according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N57L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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