{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1997-11-28","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-12-02","city":"STAUNTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"790","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-11"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-02","maker":"Aerotechnik","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROTECHNIK","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0090104","mode_s_code":"50667152","mode_s_hex":"A36E6A","model":"L13 SE VIVAT","n_number":"N320BA","name":"ROOT FRANKLIN L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHICAGO","damage":"MINR","date":"1984-06-09","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI84IA224","probable_cause":"","registration":"N320BA","state":"IL","summary":"Incident on June 9, 1984 at Chicago, IL: minor injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N320BA is an Aerotechnik L13 SE VIVAT, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Staunton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 28, 1997. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Root Franklin L, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 28, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 970529 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N320BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 99 (serial U56, cancelled February 11, 1989). 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":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 11, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N320BA: Incident on June 9, 1984 at Chicago, IL: minor injuries, minor 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":2,"serial_number":"970529","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"130 ROOT LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00846821","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N320BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"244019376"}