{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1988-10-05","airworthiness_ops":"Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-04-14","city":"VALDOSTA","country_code":"US","county_code":"185","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Slingsby","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SLINGSBY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8321506","mode_s_code":"53100613","mode_s_hex":"AC818B","model":"TYPE 21B SEDBERGH","n_number":"N9048U","name":"CLOSSON LUKE E JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9048U is a Slingsby TYPE 21B SEDBERGH, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valdosta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated October 5, 1988.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Closson Luke E JR, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WB947 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9048U 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 N9048U. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"WB947","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1063 RIDGE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00515480","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9048U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"316055921"}