Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N13SG is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bay Area Soaring Associates INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 26, 1996.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B
- Serial number
- 69
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A07A6F (octal 50075157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 26, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00641786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bay Area Soaring Associates INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 611736
San Jose, CA 95161-1736
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.
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The public federal record on N13SG, 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 Bay Area Soaring Associates INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 13, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 26, 1996, 11 years after the 1985 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 69 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N13SG 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 N13SG: Accident on April 29, 2006 at Minden, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth Discus B · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. A factor was the loss of thermal lift.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06LA151 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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