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N1235

Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES

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N1235 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 Bartow, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. 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
061 FS
Type
Glider
Power
Electric, 1 motor · Schemp Hir FES-DIS-M100 · 30 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A061DE (octal 50060736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 28, 2022
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · November 25, 2022
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01381325

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Misch David
Type
Individual
Address
5075 Boy Scout Ranch Rd
Bartow, FL 33830-7727

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 3

2016-08-16Pitts Special S-1C · Third notice for re-registration or renewal
1955-11-15Luscombe Airplane Corp. PHANTOM 1 · Valid registration
1927-08-29Curtiss JN4D · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1235, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Misch David, an individual, certificate issued October 28, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 25, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 061 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1235 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Pitts Special S-1C (serial 51667, cancelled August 16, 2016); Luscombe Airplane Corp. PHANTOM 1 (serial 115, cancelled November 15, 1955); Curtiss JN4D (serial 3291, cancelled August 29, 1927). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1235: Accident on October 17, 1990 at Ocala, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL91FA005Accident on October 17, 1990 at Ocala, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 51667

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts Special S-1 · operated under 091

THE PILOT EXPERIENCCED SPATIAL DISORIENTATION, LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING A SPIN MANEUVER AND COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL91FA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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