{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-06-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-05-17","city":"BUFFALO","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","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":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BURKHART GROB FLUGZEUGBAU","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660212","mode_s_code":"50632133","mode_s_hex":"A3345B","model":"ASTIR CS","n_number":"N30505","name":"RICHTER THOMAS P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"JUNEAU","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-10-23","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC98FA006","probable_cause":"The pilot's intentional flight into adverse weather.  Related factors were the low ceilings, mountainous terrain, and self induced pressure by the pilot to complete the flight and return for the evening.","registration":"N30505","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on October 23, 1997 at Juneau, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"JUNEAU","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-06-18","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ANC93LA096","probable_cause":"THE PILOT CONTINUING VFR FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, THE CLOUDY WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE PASS, THE PILOT BECOMING DISORIENTED, HIS LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE AREA, THE COMPANY'S INADEQUATE PROCEDURES CONCERNING MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS, AND INSUFFICIENT STANDARDS SET BY THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION.","registration":"N30505","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on June 18, 1993 at Juneau, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30505 is a Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau ASTIR CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Richter Thomas P, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 18, 2002, 26 years after the 1976 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 1279 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N30505 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-7840199, cancelled May 20, 1999); Cessna 177A (serial 17701293, cancelled March 29, 1971). 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 N30505: Accident on October 23, 1997 at Juneau, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on June 18, 1993 at Juneau, AK: minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1279","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"98 DANA RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00167301","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30505","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"142163513"}