Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N120TA is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 6, 2009.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS
- Serial number
- 246 CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0555C (octal 50052534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · May 6, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00863786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hagleitner Gunther
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1635 Town Club Dr
San Jose, CA 95124-3232
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N120TA, 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 Hagleitner Gunther, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 246 CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Saab-Scania SF340A (serial 340A151, cancelled August 5, 1992). 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 N120TA. 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