Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS
N125DD is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 5, 1996.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU
- Model
- DUO DISCUS
- Serial number
- 103
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A06694 (octal 50063224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · December 5, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00146311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arnold William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6201 Kellers Church Rd
Pipersville, PA 18947-1807
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N125DD, 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 Arnold William, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated December 5, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N125DD according to the deregistered file. [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]
1 NTSB record under N125DD: Accident on July 24, 1997 at Minden, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to ensure that the wings were maintained at a lateral level attitude during the initial landing rollout. A factor in the accident was the rough, uneven nature of the terrain chosen for the landing.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data