Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N717MJ is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Philadelphia Glider Counsil INC, a corporation in Hilltown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 2, 1988.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B
- Serial number
- 211
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9972A (octal 52313452)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 2, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00553752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Philadelphia Glider Counsil INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 122
Hilltown, PA 18927-0122
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