{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1998-01-26","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-10-22","city":"ROANOKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"770","cruise_speed_mph":45,"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":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Let","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1360306","mode_s_code":"53324666","mode_s_hex":"ADA9B6","model":"BLANIK L-13","n_number":"N98KK","name":"WHITCOMB MATTHEW J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"OKEECHOBEE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-12-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA99LA051","probable_cause":"The inadequate visual lookout of the pilot of the Cessna airplane and of the pilot of the glider resulting in the midair collision.","registration":"N98KK","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on December 19, 1998 at Okeechobee, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98KK is a Let BLANIK L-13, a glider with no engine, built in 1925. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Roanoke, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2009 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 26, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Whitcomb Matthew J, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2009, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 1998, 73 years after the 1925 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 027155 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98KK 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":"1 NTSB record under N98KK: Accident on December 19, 1998 at Okeechobee, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"027155","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5217 DRESDEN LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00374768","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98KK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1925,"zip":"240128576"}