Szybowcowy Zaklad Doswiadczaln JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1
N980 is a Szybowcowy Zaklad Doswiadczaln JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 23, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Szybowcowy Zaklad Doswiadczaln
- Model
- JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1 · all JANTAR-2A-SZD 42-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- X-128
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAB23 (octal 53325443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2009
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · May 23, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00283780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willems Steven D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3496 Wimbledon Way
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1642
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N980, 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 Willems Steven D, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2005, 29 years after the 1976 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 X-128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N980 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S62A (serial 62010, cancelled February 6, 1967); Waco GXE (serial G-867, cancelled March 4, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N980. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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