{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2019-04-05","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"JEFFERSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-14","maker":"Let","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1360308","mode_s_code":"50406502","mode_s_hex":"A20D42","model":"L-23 SUPER BLANIK","n_number":"N231LS","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Ridgeland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-09-06","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA336","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s exceedance of the glider\u2019s critical angle of attack which resulted in a loss of control while maneuvering to return for landing after a runway overshoot.","registration":"N231LS","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on September 6, 2025 at Ridgeland, SC: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"West Milford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-04-11","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC03LA083","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind and his failure to maintain directional control.  Factors in the accident were the crosswind and landing at night.","registration":"N231LS","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on April 11, 2003 at West Milford, NJ: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N231LS is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jefferson, Georgia. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported, pending cancellation\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 5, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported, pending cancellation\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 2019, 26 years after the 1993 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 938020 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N231LS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 25-0136, cancelled April 15, 2013). 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":"2 NTSB records under N231LS: Accident on September 6, 2025 at Ridgeland, SC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 11, 2003 at West Milford, NJ: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"938020","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Sale reported, pending cancellation","status_code":"17","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"40 PROFESSIONAL DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00554592","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N231LS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"305496333"}