{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-10","airworthiness_ops":"Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-21","city":"GOLDEN","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-21","maker":"Alexander Schleicher","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801531","mode_s_code":"51231014","mode_s_hex":"A5320C","model":"AS 34 ME","n_number":"N434AT","name":"TUERTSCHER ALBERT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"St. Croix","damage":"MINR","date":"2010-01-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ENG10IA010","probable_cause":"The sealing failure between the fuel nozzle adapter assembly and fuel transfer tubes that allowed fuel to leak into the nacelle fire zone where it was subsequently ignited by the hot combustor case. Contributing to the failure was a combination of manufacturing defects of the fuel nozzle adapter assembly by the manufacturer and incorrectly overhauled fuel transfer tubes by the engine manufacturer. Contributing to the incident was a second defect of the fuel nozzle adapter assembly by the manufacturer which prevented maintenance personnel from detecting the internal fuel leak.","registration":"N434AT","state":"","summary":"Incident on January 12, 2010 at St. Croix: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N434AT is an Alexander Schleicher AS 34 ME, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Golden, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated September 10, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tuertscher Albert, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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 34005 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N434AT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N434AT: Incident on January 12, 2010 at St. Croix: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"34005","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"16519 W 15TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"01397852","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N434AT","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"AS 33 ME","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"804012867"}