{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-02-10","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-03-02","city":"SAN FRANCISCO","country_code":"US","county_code":"075","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":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Alexander Schleicher","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801538","mode_s_code":"52641062","mode_s_hex":"AB4232","model":"ASW 27-18","n_number":"N8241","name":"ASHCRAFT LUKE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TURLOCK","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-08-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX91LA359","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S OVER ROTATION OF THE GYROCOPTER DURING THE TAKEOFF SEQUENCE WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF CONTROL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE POOR MAINTENANCE PRACTICES PERFORMED ON THE MACHINE.","registration":"N8241","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 15, 1991 at Turlock, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8241 is an Alexander Schleicher ASW 27-18, a glider with no engine, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 10, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ashcraft Luke, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 10, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29093 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8241 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bensen Gyrocopter B-8MJ (serial A1443, cancelled April 8, 1993). 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 N8241: Accident on August 15, 1991 at Turlock, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"29093","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"668 CAROLINA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01208221","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8241","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"AS 33 ME","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"941072726"}