Alexander Schleicher ASK 21
N650SA is an Alexander Schleicher ASK 21, a glider with no engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Southern California Soaring Academy INC, a corporation in Valencia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated January 13, 2012. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Alexander Schleicher: AS 33 ME
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Alexander Schleicher (Germany)FAA spelling: ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO
- Model
- ASK 21 · all ASK 21s 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- and carbon-fibre glider. This is how the Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 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
- 21888
- 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
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A88E4B (octal 52107113)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2024
- 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 · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 13, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01087733
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern California Soaring Academy INC
- 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
- 24307 Magic Mountain Pkwy Ste 513
Valencia, CA 91355-3402
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 1
Connections how N650SA links to the rest of the register
- Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 38 registered
- Alexander Schleicher 163 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Southern California Soaring Academy INC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Valencia, CA 45 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Alexander Schleicher ASK 21 13 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N650SA, 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 Southern California Soaring Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 10, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated January 13, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21888 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N650SA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N650SA. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data