Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18
N818RS 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 Cambridge, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 19, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS8-18 · all LS8-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8319
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AB289C (octal 52624234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 19, 2021
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00853705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stokes Richard Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 26 Washington Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140-2810
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 N818RS, 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 Stokes Richard Christopher, an individual, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 2021, 21 years after the 2000 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 8319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N818RS 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 N818RS. 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