{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2012-12-15","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-06-04","city":"LAWRENCEVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","cruise_speed_mph":60,"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":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801563","mode_s_code":"51130001","mode_s_hex":"A4B001","model":"K 8 B","n_number":"N4007U","name":"WABASH VALLEY SOARING ASSOCIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4007U is a Schleicher K 8 B, a glider with no engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wabash Valley Soaring Association INC, a corporation in Lawrenceville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 15, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wabash Valley Soaring Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 15, 2012, 48 years after the 1964 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 8393 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4007U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150E (serial 15061407, cancelled April 13, 1999). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4007U. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"8393","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"13870 HANGAR RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00087291","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4007U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1964,"zip":"62439"}