{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-11-21","airworthiness_ops":"Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-16","city":"NASHVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","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":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-16","maker":"Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER ALEXANDER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05624RU","mode_s_code":"51303077","mode_s_hex":"A5863F","model":"ASH 26 E","n_number":"N455S","name":"ZIMMERMAN WALKER D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Parowan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-06-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR10LA294","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to see and avoid the other glider climbing in the same thermal.","registration":"N455S","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on June 15, 2010 at Parowan, UT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N455S is a Schleicher Alexander Gmbh & Co ASH 26 E, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated November 21, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Zimmerman Walker D, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated November 21, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26183 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N455S 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 N455S: Accident on June 15, 2010 at Parowan, UT: no 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"26183","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4018 ABERDEEN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00513887","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N455S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"372051806"}