{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-04-07","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-11-04","city":"RALEIGH","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","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":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Glasflugel","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GLASFLUGEL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3800342","mode_s_code":"51073751","mode_s_hex":"A477E9","model":"STANDRD LIBELLE 201B","n_number":"N3872","name":"WILEY EARL S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Faribault","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-07-26","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN09CA475","probable_cause":"The pilot's inability to maintain proper airspeed on approach to land.","registration":"N3872","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on July 26, 2009 at Faribault, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3872 is a Glasflugel STANDRD LIBELLE 201B, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 7, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wiley Earl S, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1975, 4 years after the 1971 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 218 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3872 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss JN4D (serial 4321, cancelled July 10, 1930). 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 N3872: Accident on July 26, 2009 at Faribault, MN: 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":"218","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3425 CARTWAY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00810464","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3872","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"276169763"}