Schleicher ASW-27
N920KB is a Schleicher ASW-27, a glider with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Redding, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 11, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher
- Model
- ASW-27 · all ASW-27s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27123
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- ACBF0D (octal 53137415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · February 11, 2000
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00873573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3525 Scenic Dr
Redding, CA 96001-0118
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.
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The public federal record on N920KB, 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 Smith James W, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated February 11, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N920KB 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 N920KB: Accident on July 15, 2026 at Montague, CA: 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: Schleicher ASW-27 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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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