Let BLANIK L-13
N6288 is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to White Sands Soaring Association INC, a corporation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 1998 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 30, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- BLANIK L-13 · all BLANIK L-13s and related versions
- Serial number
- 025520
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A83765 (octal 52033545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 1998
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · July 30, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00281796
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Sands Soaring Association INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3500 Airport Rd # 14
Alamogordo, NM 88310-8126
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6288, 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 White Sands Soaring Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 13, 1998, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 30, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 025520 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6288 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air 4000 (serial 735, cancelled August 25, 1952). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6288. 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