Schleicher ASW-27
N81KP is a Schleicher ASW-27, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Livermore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 17, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-27 · all ASW-27s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27041
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB07F2 (octal 52603762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 17, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00846561
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Suter Laurance J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1643 Warsaw Ave
Livermore, CA 94550-6139
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N81KP, 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 Suter Laurance J, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated July 17, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81KP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Prout Paul E LONG-EZE (serial 292, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N81KP: Accident on November 7, 2020 at Clayton, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 25, 1983 at Geyserville, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW27 · operated under 091
The failure of both pilots of each glider to see an avoid one another while maneuvering, which resulted in a mid-air collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA040 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Prout LONG-EZE · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX83FA305 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