Schleicher Alexander K 7
N8241E is a Schleicher Alexander K 7, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to So Soo Flying Club, a corporation in South Sioux City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 8, 1961.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher Alexander
- Model
- K 7 · all K 7s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A glider of wood and fabric, with a steel-tube fuselage frame on some versions. This is how the Schleicher Alexander K 7 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
- 927
- 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
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AB4237 (octal 52641067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · March 8, 1961
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00563641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- So Soo Flying Club (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
- PO Box 425
South Sioux City, NE 68776-0425
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8241E links to the rest of the register
- Schleicher Alexander K 7 15 registered
- Schleicher Alexander 15 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- So Soo Flying Club 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- South Sioux City, NE 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Nebraska 2,950 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schleicher Alexander K 7 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schleicher Alexander K 7 3 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8241E.json.
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The public federal record on N8241E, 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 So Soo Flying Club, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2003, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 8, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 927 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8241E 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 N8241E. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data