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N97DG

Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B

Valid Electric gliderNew York

N97DG is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Saratoga Springs, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 27, 2001.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
DISCUS B
Serial number
108
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1986
Transponder code
AD819E (octal 53300636)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 28, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 28, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · August 27, 2001
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00070897

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Loeffler Herbert M JR
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 3484
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-8010
Co-owners
Allen William J

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