{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2000-03-28","city":"LITITZ","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","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":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-20","maker":"Rolladen-Schneider","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROLLADEN-SCHNEIDER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801267","mode_s_code":"52030667","mode_s_hex":"A831B7","model":"LS8-18","n_number":"N627RB","name":"BERGH RALPH","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N627RB is a Rolladen-Schneider LS8-18, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 4, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bergh Ralph, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2000, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 4, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8302 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N627RB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mckinley Ronald P PITTS S-1S (serial 001RB, cancelled April 6, 1988). 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":"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N627RB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"8302","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10 SOUTHVIEW LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00545680","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N627RB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"175438208"}