{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1962-09-26","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1987-02-12","city":"SHIPSHEWANA","country_code":"US","county_code":"087","cruise_speed_mph":75,"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":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-07","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050610","mode_s_code":"52760420","mode_s_hex":"ABE110","model":"SGU 2-22CK","n_number":"N8647R","name":"LUTES RALPH E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"LUTES MELBA S","plain_english":"N8647R is a Schweizer SGU 2-22CK, a glider with no engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Shipshewana, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 1987 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 26, 1962.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lutes Ralph E, a co-owned, certificate issued February 12, 1987, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated September 26, 1962, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 149 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8647R 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 N8647R. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"149","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8845 W 350 N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00812391","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8647R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"46565"}