Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK
N809S is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Piedmont Soaring Society, a corporation in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated September 10, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- L-23 SUPER BLANIK · all L-23 SUPER BLANIKs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Let L-23 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
- 928009
- 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
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AB04DC (octal 52602334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- 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 · September 10, 1993
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00904492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piedmont Soaring Society (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 5201 Fern Ridge Dr
Winston Salem, NC 27104-2466
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N809S links to the rest of the register
- Let L-23 83 registered
- Let 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Piedmont Soaring Society 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Winston Salem, NC 113 aircraft registered in this town
- Smith Reynolds Airport · INT
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Let L-23 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Let L-23 69 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Let L-23 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N809S, 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 Piedmont Soaring Society, a corporation, certificate issued December 30, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated September 10, 1993, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 928009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N809S 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N809S. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data