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Rolladen Schneider LS-8A
N993MA is a Rolladen Schneider LS-8A, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in College Station, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated March 30, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen Schneider
- Model
- LS-8A · all LS-8As and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Rolladen-Schneider LS-8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 8216
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADDEDC (octal 53357334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 30, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493707
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Castellani Daniel
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2600 Goodrich Ct
College Station, TX 77845-1710
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N993MA links to the rest of the register
- Rolladen-Schneider LS-8 28 registered
- Rolladen Schneider 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- College Station, TX 126 aircraft registered in this town
- Easterwood Field · CLL
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N993MA.json.
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The public federal record on N993MA, 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 Castellani Daniel, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated March 30, 1999, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N993MA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N993MA. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data