Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES
N104JL is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 25, 2022.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- DISCUS-2C FES
- Serial number
- 60
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Schemp Hir FES-DIS-M100 · 30 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A01463 (octal 50012143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · November 25, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01381395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reilly David J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1900 Stanberry Dr
Richmond, VA 23238-3264
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N104JL, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Reilly David J, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 25, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N104JL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hutson John G STAR-LITE (serial 104, cancelled March 11, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N104JL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data