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N827

Schleicher ASW-15B

Valid Massachusetts

N827 is a Schleicher ASW-15B, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Milford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 6, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Schleicher
Model
ASW-15B · all ASW-15Bs and related versions
Serial number
15282
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
AB4ADB (octal 52645333)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 11, 2014
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · June 6, 1979
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00213551

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schirmer Dwight S
Type
Co-owned
Address
3 Mary Rd
Milford, MA 01757-2129
Co-owners
Lemaerts Bart

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

1930-05-02Standard J-1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N827, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Schirmer Dwight S, a co-owned, certificate issued April 11, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 6, 1979, 6 years after the 1973 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15282 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N827 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Standard J-1 (serial 1918, cancelled May 2, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N827: Accident on September 10, 1994 at Dansville, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC94LA173Accident on September 10, 1994 at Dansville, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW15B · operated under 091

THE PILOT ALLOWED THE SPEED OF THE GLIDER TO GET TO LOW ON FINAL APPROACH WHICH RESULTED IN A RAPID DESCENT, SUBSEQUENT UNDERSHOOT OF THE RUNWAY, AND IMPACT WITH A TREE. A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT WAS A DOWNDRAFT CONDITION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data