Let BLANIK L-13
N98KK is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1925. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Roanoke, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2009 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 26, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Let
- Model
- BLANIK L-13 · all BLANIK L-13s and related versions
- Serial number
- 027155
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1925
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA9B6 (octal 53324666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2009
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · January 26, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00374768
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitcomb Matthew J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5217 Dresden Ln
Roanoke, VA 24012-8576
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 N98KK, 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 Whitcomb Matthew J, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2009, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 1998, 73 years after the 1925 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 027155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98KK 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 N98KK: Accident on December 19, 1998 at Okeechobee, FL: 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: Let L-13 · operated under 091
The inadequate visual lookout of the pilot of the Cessna airplane and of the pilot of the glider resulting in the midair collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA99LA051 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
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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