{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1987-07-30","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1981-03-12","city":"WICHITA","country_code":"US","county_code":"173","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":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURKHART GROB FLUGZEUGBAU","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660402","mode_s_code":"50210407","mode_s_hex":"A11107","model":"STANDARD ASTIR II","n_number":"N168SS","name":"SOARING SYSTEMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N168SS is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau STANDARD ASTIR II, a glider with no engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Soaring Systems INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1981 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 30, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Soaring Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 1981, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 30, 1987, 7 years after the 1980 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 5040S for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N168SS 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 N168SS. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"5040S","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14311 E TIPPERARY CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00733210","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N168SS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"672301517"}