Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK
N979AS is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Steamboat Springs Soaring Association INC, a corporation in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- L-23 SUPER BLANIK · all L-23 SUPER BLANIKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 948126
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADA525 (octal 53322445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01011287
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steamboat Springs Soaring Association INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 29790 Elk View Dr
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-9462
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 N979AS, 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 Steamboat Springs Soaring Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 948126 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N979AS 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 N979AS: Accident on December 27, 2005 at Seattle, WA: 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: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-83 · operated under 121
The ground personnel baggage handler failed to maintain clearance from the aircraft with cargo handling equipment during ground operations and inadvertently damaged the airplane's pressure bulkhead which subsequently decompressed during climb to cruise.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06LA033 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