{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-05-24","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-10-11","city":"WOODSTOCK","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","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":"2030-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-11","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801501","mode_s_code":"50523215","mode_s_hex":"A2A68D","model":"ASW-27","n_number":"N270AS","name":"WECK GEOFFREY E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BRUNSWICK","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-04-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA91MA033","probable_cause":"THE LOSS OF CONTROL IN FLIGHT AS A RESULT OF A MALFUNCTION OF THE LEFT ENGINE PROPELLER CONTROL UNIT WHICH ALLOWED THE PROPELLER BLADE ANGLES TO GO BELOW THE FLIGHT IDLE POSITION. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE DEFICIENT DESIGN OF THE PROPELLER CONTROL UNIT BY HAMILTON STANDARD AND THE APPROVAL OF THE DESIGN BY THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. THE DESIGN DID NOT CORRECTLY EVALUATE THE FAILURE MODE THAT OCCURRED DURING THIS FLIGHT, WHICH RESULTED IN AN UNCOMMANDED AND UNCORRECTABLE MOVEMENT OF THE BLADES OF THE AIRPLANE'S LEFT PROPELLER BELOW THE FLIGHT IDLE POSITION. (NTSB REPORT AAR-92/03)","registration":"N270AS","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on April 5, 1991 at Brunswick, GA: fatal, destroyed (23 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N270AS is a Schleicher ASW-27, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Woodstock, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 24, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Weck Geoffrey E, an individual, certificate issued October 11, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27147 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N270AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120218, cancelled July 30, 1991). 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 N270AS: Accident on April 5, 1991 at Brunswick, GA: fatal, destroyed (23 fatal). 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"27147","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1410 GALLOWAY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00643734","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N270AS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"600988079"}