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N8SN

Rolladen Schneider LS-8A

N8SN is a Rolladen Schneider LS-8A, a glider with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Monte Sereno, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 8, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Rolladen Schneider
Model
LS-8A · all LS-8As and related versions
Serial number
8220
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AADEC8 (octal 52557310)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 29, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · February 8, 1999
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00483906

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Audy Jonathan Mark
Type
Individual
Address
18400 Daves Ave
Monte Sereno, CA 95030-3116

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 1

2026-09-17Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

—Newton Stanley L MITCHELL U-2 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8SN, 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 Audy Jonathan Mark, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 8, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8SN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Newton Stanley L MITCHELL U-2 (serial 348, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 17, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8SN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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.

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