Schleicher ASK-14
N8705S is a Schleicher ASK-14, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2007 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated June 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASK-14 · all ASK-14s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14040
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth F10 · 26 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- ABF96E (octal 52774556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2007
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · June 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00383438
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leonard Steven E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11117 W Westlawn St
Wichita, KS 67212-6411
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8705S, 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 Leonard Steven E, an individual, certificate issued February 6, 2007, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 3, 1998, 28 years after the 1970 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 14040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8705S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15062005, 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]
1 NTSB record under N8705S: Accident on August 20, 1983 at Gordonsville, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA334 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