{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1982-04-14","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-03-26","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","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":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-04","maker":"Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURKHART GROB FLUGZEUGBAU","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660108","mode_s_code":"50057677","mode_s_hex":"A05FBF","model":"G102 STD ASTIR III","n_number":"N123KG","name":"SOARING SCIENCE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wickenburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2007-06-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA07CA175","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions which resulted in an inflight collision with a cactus tree while landing.  The loss of thermal lift, tailwind, gusts, and tree were contributing factors to the accident.","registration":"N123KG","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on June 16, 2007 at Wickenburg, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N123KG is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G102 STD ASTIR III, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Soaring Science INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 14, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Soaring Science INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2008, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 14, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5556S for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N123KG according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N123KG: Accident on June 16, 2007 at Wickenburg, AZ: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"5556S","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"108 W 13TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00773810","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N123KG","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"198011145"}