{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-08-06","airworthiness_ops":"Racing","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-25","city":"PALMDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59112","engine_horsepower":33,"engine_maker":"SCHLEICHER","engine_model":"EA911/1-35LK","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-25","maker":"Alexander Schleicher","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801562","mode_s_code":"52661632","mode_s_hex":"AB639A","model":"AS 33 ME","n_number":"N833BB","name":"BLUEDORN CHARLES BRITTON","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"BENSON CATRINA D","plain_english":"N833BB is an Alexander Schleicher AS 33 ME, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2026. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Palmdale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated August 6, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bluedorn Charles Britton, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing, dated August 6, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33540 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N833BB 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 N833BB. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"33540","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"39243 STALLION DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01564538","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N833BB","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"AS 33 ME","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2026,"zip":"935515684"}