{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1999-02-08","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-08-29","city":"MONTE SERENO","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-17"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-29","maker":"Rolladen Schneider","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROLLADEN SCHNEIDER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3801265","mode_s_code":"52557310","mode_s_hex":"AADEC8","model":"LS-8A","n_number":"N8SN","name":"AUDY JONATHAN MARK","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8SN is a Rolladen Schneider LS-8A, a glider with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Monte Sereno, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 8, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Audy Jonathan Mark, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 8, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8220 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8SN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Newton Stanley L MITCHELL U-2 (serial 348, cancelled date not given). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 17, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N8SN. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"8220","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18400 DAVES AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00483906","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8SN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"950303116"}