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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Schempp-Hirth KA8B
N8747 is a Schempp-Hirth KA8B, a glider with no engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- KA8B
- Serial number
- SH8639
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AC087F (octal 53004177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clayton Harry L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11701 e 69Th St N
Wichita, KS 67226-8512 - Co-owners
- Erlenwein Susan D
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8747 links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Wichita, KS 1,317 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,742 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8747.json.
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The public federal record on N8747, 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 Clayton Harry L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 4, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH8639 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8747 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]
1 NTSB record under N8747: Accident on September 28, 2002 at Tullahoma, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth KA8B · operated under 091
The student pilot misjudged the airspeed and altitude during a visual approach to land that resulted in the in-flight collision with the trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data