{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2001-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-08-03","city":"NEWPORT BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","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":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-05-29","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801550","mode_s_code":"51137414","mode_s_hex":"A4BF0C","model":"ASW-28","n_number":"N40486","name":"CLERX BERNARD C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DENVER","damage":"MINR","date":"1990-12-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN91IA028","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF AN ENGINE BEARING.","registration":"N40486","state":"CO","summary":"Incident on December 20, 1990 at Denver, CO: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40486 is a Schleicher ASW-28, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2001 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 26, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Clerx Bernard C, an individual, certificate issued August 3, 2001, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 26, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28013 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N40486 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 727-22 (serial 18848, cancelled November 15, 1996); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305207, cancelled April 11, 1974). 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 N40486: Incident on December 20, 1990 at Denver, CO: no 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"28013","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 5352","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00603844","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40486","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"926625352"}