{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-05-16","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-14","city":"LAYTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","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":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-14","maker":"Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROLLADEN-SCHNEIDER GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801213","mode_s_code":"51363207","mode_s_hex":"A5E687","model":"LS-3","n_number":"N48CW","name":"HIBBARD BRUCE A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Buena Vista","damage":"SUBS","date":"2006-06-11","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"DEN06CA086","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control resulting in an inadvertent stall/mush. Contributing to the accident was the downdraft.","registration":"N48CW","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on June 11, 2006 at Buena Vista, CO: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N48CW is a Rolladen-Schneider Gmbh LS-3, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Layton, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 16, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hibbard Bruce A, an individual, certificate issued July 14, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated May 16, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3196 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N48CW 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 N48CW: Accident on June 11, 2006 at Buena Vista, CO: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"3196","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3261 N LAYTON RIDGE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00300135","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N48CW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"840407121"}