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N6514M

Schleicher ASW-20C

N6514M is a Schleicher ASW-20C, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Carlos, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 24, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
ASW-20C · all ASW-20Cs and related versions
Serial number
20801
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1985
Transponder code
A89361 (octal 52111541)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 18, 2018
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 24, 1996
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00234468

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Colton Daniel R
Type
Individual
Address
2800 Eaton Ave
San Carlos, CA 94070-4329

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6514M, 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 Colton Daniel R, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1996, 11 years after the 1985 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 20801 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6514M 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6514M: Accident on August 14, 1994 at Ionia, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI94LA280Accident on August 14, 1994 at Ionia, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW-20 · operated under 091

no thermal lift available, and the lack of suitable terrain for landing. A factor related to the accident was the high wind condition.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA280 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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