Schleicher ASW-27
N78AB is a Schleicher ASW-27, a glider with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 22, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-27 · all ASW-27s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27207
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AA8E2F (octal 52507057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · March 22, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00035139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moruzzi David John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2020 1/2 Taylor St
San Francisco, CA 94133-2660
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 N78AB, 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 Moruzzi David John, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated March 22, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78AB 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 N78AB: Accident on July 21, 2011 at Preston, ID: no injuries, substantial 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: Schleicher ASW-27 · operated under 091
The glider's impact with crops during the off-airport landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA342 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