{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-10-07","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-01-22","city":"BROWNSBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"089","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Burkhart Grob Luft Und Raumfah","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURKHART GROB LUFT UND RAUMFAH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660501","mode_s_code":"50010602","mode_s_hex":"A01182","model":"G103 TWIN ASTIR TRAI","n_number":"N103T","name":"HUNTSVILLE SOARING CLUB","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Brownsboro","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-11-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA26LA085","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s failure to properly lock the rear canopy prior to flight, which led to the canopy opening during aerotow at low altitude, and a subsequent off-airport landing in a corn field.","registration":"N103T","state":"AL","summary":"Accident on November 26, 2025 at Brownsboro, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N103T is a Burkhart Grob Luft Und Raumfah G103 TWIN ASTIR TRAI, a glider with no engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Huntsville Soaring Club, a corporation in Brownsboro, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 7, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Huntsville Soaring Club, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 2020, 42 years after the 1978 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3144 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N103T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Tegland B-8M (serial 368, cancelled June 26, 2009); Piper PA-18 (serial 18-2217, cancelled May 21, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N103T: Accident on November 26, 2025 at Brownsboro, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"3144","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"200 AIRPORT DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01276344","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N103T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"357419402"}