{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1998-08-26","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-06-14","city":"CORPUS CHRISTI","country_code":"US","county_code":"355","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":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Pdps Pzl-Bielsko","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PDPS PZL-BIELSKO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8821644","mode_s_code":"52635316","mode_s_hex":"AB3ACE","model":"SZD-55-1","n_number":"N8221K","name":"KLASSEN THOMAS L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8221K is a Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 26, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Klassen Thomas L, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 26, 1998, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 551197093 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8221K was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288216168, cancelled January 2, 1990); Gulfstream-Schweizer A/C Corp GULFSTREAM AM G-164B (serial 621B, cancelled September 12, 1980); Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1-1221, cancelled December 2, 1946). 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 N8221K. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"551197093","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4510 LAKE CHARLES DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00283716","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8221K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"784135239"}