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N52LB

Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-3DT

Valid Electric gliderNevada

N52LB is a Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-3DT, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whiteside Samuel L, a partnership in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 17, 1988.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
NIMBUS-3DT
Serial number
13
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A68791 (octal 51503621)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 6, 2011
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · June 17, 1988
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00834762

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whiteside Samuel L
Type
Partnership
Address
1738 Lavender Ct
Minden, NV 89423-5121
Co-owners
Barnett Mark A

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

—Swearingen SA-226AT · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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