{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-07-02","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-09-06","city":"BENTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":75,"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":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"38015H2","mode_s_code":"50150357","mode_s_hex":"A0D0EF","model":"ASW-15B","n_number":"N1515B","name":"CHILHOWEE SOARING ASSOCIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"NANTUCKET","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-08-15","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC86LA210","probable_cause":"","registration":"N1515B","state":"MA","summary":"Accident on August 15, 1986 at Nantucket, MA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1515B is a Schleicher ASW-15B, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Chilhowee Soaring Association INC, a corporation in Benton, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 2, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Chilhowee Soaring Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 1999, 23 years after the 1976 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 15450 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1515B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 6142, cancelled January 20, 1993). 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 N1515B: Accident on August 15, 1986 at Nantucket, MA: serious 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"15450","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 53","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00615682","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1515B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"373070053"}