{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1984-10-05","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-23","city":"NASHVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","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":"2025-07-23","maker":"Schleicher","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHLEICHER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801503","mode_s_code":"52407243","mode_s_hex":"AA0EA3","model":"ASW-20L","n_number":"N747XL","name":"SAMSON PHILIP C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N747XL is a Schleicher ASW-20L, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 5, 1984.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Samson Philip C, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 5, 1984, 3 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20459 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N747XL 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N747XL. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"20459","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3203 ACKLEN AVE APT A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00111685","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N747XL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"372123215"}