{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2002-12-03","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-06-19","city":"WARNER SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","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":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3802060","mode_s_code":"51646424","mode_s_hex":"A74D14","model":"VENTUS 2A","n_number":"N57LK","name":"SKY SAILING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wurtsboro","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-07-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA19CA469","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to properly secure the glider\u2019s canopy before flight, which resulted in it opening in flight and the pilot's inability to maintain an appropriate final approach path and altitude, which resulted in impact with a shipping container.","registration":"N57LK","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on July 26, 2019 at Wurtsboro, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N57LK is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2A, a glider with no engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sky Sailing INC, a corporation in Warner Springs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated December 3, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sky Sailing INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 19, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated December 3, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 137 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N57LK 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 N57LK: Accident on July 26, 2019 at Wurtsboro, NY: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"137","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"31930 HIGHWAY 79","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00019039","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N57LK","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"920869625"}