Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18
N818JK is a Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Nahant, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 24, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS8-18 · all LS8-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8344
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AB27E6 (octal 52623746)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · February 24, 2001
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00133694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Detrich Harry W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10 Valley Rd
Nahant, MA 01908-1222
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N818JK, 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 Detrich Harry W, an individual, certificate issued November 27, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 24, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8344 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N818JK 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 N818JK. 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 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