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N480J

Schempp-Hirth JANUS

Valid Electric gliderNew Hampshire

N480J is a Schempp-Hirth JANUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Natkiel Paul, a partnership in Hanover, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated July 22, 2022.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
Model
JANUS
Serial number
48
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
1977
Transponder code
A5E961 (octal 51364541)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 7, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · July 22, 2022
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01349279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Natkiel Paul
Type
Partnership
Address
PO Box 797
Hanover, NH 03755-0797
Co-owners
Braner Moshe

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data