{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-11","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-04-22","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"58109","engine_horsepower":68,"engine_maker":"SOLO","engine_model":"262502I","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-21","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801963","mode_s_code":"52432467","mode_s_hex":"AA3537","model":"ARCUS M","n_number":"N757NA","name":"ALPINE SOARING ENTERPRISES LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"JAMAICA","damage":"","date":"1993-09-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO93IA175","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT HYDRAULIC PRESSURE SWITCH, WHICH CAUSED THE LEFT YAW DAMPER MODULE TO BECOME INOPERATIVE RESULTING IN UNCOMMANDED RUDDER MOVEMENTS DURING FLIGHT.","registration":"N757NA","state":"NY","summary":"Incident on September 13, 1993 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N757NA is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Alpine Soaring Enterprises LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 11, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Alpine Soaring Enterprises LTD, a corporation, certificate issued April 22, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 11, 2016, consistent with the 2016 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":"N757NA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 757-23A (serial 24567, cancelled June 28, 2005); Cessna 152 (serial 15279862, cancelled April 18, 1980). 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 N757NA: Incident on September 13, 1993 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"137","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O DELAWARE & YACHT REGISTRY LTD","street2":"108 W 13TH ST STE 105","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01217563","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N757NA","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"19810"}