Schleicher Alexander K 7
N997K is a Schleicher Alexander K 7, a glider with no engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2022. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schleicher Alexander
- Model
- K 7 · all K 7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 573
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- ADED85 (octal 53366605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 18, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00696591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartley John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 64 E Clara Ct
Bozeman, MT 59718-9151
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N997K, 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 Hartley John, an individual, certificate issued September 1, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2022, 63 years after the 1959 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 573 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N997K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright ROBIN (serial 553, cancelled January 5, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N997K. 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