{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-03-08","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-01-25","city":"NEW DOUGLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"119","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURKHART GROB FLUGZEUGBAU","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660201","mode_s_code":"50166477","mode_s_hex":"A0ED3F","model":"TWIN ASTIR","n_number":"N159SS","name":"SILVER CREEK GLIDER CLUB","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N159SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau TWIN ASTIR, a glider with no engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Silver Creek Glider Club, a corporation in New Douglas, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated March 8, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Silver Creek Glider Club, a corporation, certificate issued January 25, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated March 8, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3220 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N159SS 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N159SS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"3220","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7410 ROCKWELL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00601310","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N159SS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"620742204"}