{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-01-26","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-01-18","city":"ALAMOGORDO","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":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Grob-Werke Gmbh Co Kg","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GROB-WERKE GMBH CO KG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1660213","mode_s_code":"52413506","mode_s_hex":"AA1746","model":"ASTIR CS JEAN","n_number":"N7497","name":"WHITE SANDS SOARING ASSOCIATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"STUTTGART","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-05-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW83LA235","probable_cause":"","registration":"N7497","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on May 13, 1983 at Stuttgart, AR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7497 is a Grob-Werke Gmbh Co Kg ASTIR CS JEAN, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to White Sands Soaring Association, a corporation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated January 26, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to White Sands Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued January 18, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2001, 24 years after the 1977 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 2004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7497 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 976, cancelled November 17, 1983); Curtiss Robin 3PCLM (serial 8, cancelled September 7, 1934). 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":"1 NTSB record under N7497: Accident on May 13, 1983 at Stuttgart, AR: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"2004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3500 AIRPORT RD # 14","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00213634","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7497","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"883108126"}