{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-11-13","city":"SAN DIEGO","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-01"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER ALEXANDER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05624RU","mode_s_code":"51272171","mode_s_hex":"A57479","model":"ASH 26 E","n_number":"N4500E","name":"OWENS RUSSELL A TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LAKE MICHIGAN","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-07-18","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI92FAMS2","probable_cause":"UNDETERMINED.","registration":"N4500E","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on July 18, 1992 at Lake Michigan, MI: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"OWENS LYNN P TRUSTEE","plain_english":"N4500E is a Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co ASH 26 E, a glider with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Owens Russell A Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued November 13, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26182 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4500E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271613, cancelled August 25, 1995). 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 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4500E: Accident on July 18, 1992 at Lake Michigan, MI: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"26182","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10761 BROOKVIEW LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00393857","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4500E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"921311206"}