{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1993-02-17","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-29","city":"CLERMONT","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-29","maker":"Let","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1360308","mode_s_code":"50470631","mode_s_hex":"A27199","model":"L-23 SUPER BLANIK","n_number":"N257BA","name":"SEMINOLE FLYING & SOARING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N257BA is a Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK, a glider with no engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Seminole Flying & Soaring INC, a non-citizen corporation in Clermont, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 17, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Seminole Flying & Soaring INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated February 17, 1993, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 917928 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N257BA 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 N257BA. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":2,"serial_number":"917928","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4024 SOARING LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00514212","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N257BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"347148371"}