Burkhart Grob G103 TWIN ASTIR
N72EJ is a Burkhart Grob G103 TWIN ASTIR, a glider with no engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Lakeland Aero Club INC, a corporation in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for other, dated June 22, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkhart Grob
- Model
- G103 TWIN ASTIR · all G103 TWIN ASTIRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3253-T-30
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A9A1A0 (octal 52320640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Other · June 22, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00354379
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lakeland Aero Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3952 James C Ray Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-1267
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.
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The public federal record on N72EJ, 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 Lakeland Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 2007, 28 years after the 1979 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3253-T-30 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72EJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N72EJ: Accident on September 22, 2018 at Groveland, FL: serious injuries, minor 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: Grob G103 TWIN ASTIR · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to relinquish the flight controls during landing when the flight instructor told him to do so, and the instructor’s subsequent inability to properly control the glider, which led to a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA18TA267 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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