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N144J

Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B

Valid Electric gliderTexas

N144J is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 11, 2000.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
DISCUS-2B
Serial number
73
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A0B254 (octal 50131124)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 14, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 14, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 11, 2000
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00495940

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sullivan Brent
Type
Individual
Address
1112B Edwards St
Houston, TX 77007-4228

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N144J, 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 Sullivan Brent, an individual, certificate issued January 14, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N144J according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N144J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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