Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2CT
N150ME is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sandhill Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Brighton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 16, 2006.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS-2CT · all DISCUS-2CTs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 19
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Solo 2350 SER · 26 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A0CB47 (octal 50145507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 16, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00226729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sandhill Soaring Club INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1891
Brighton, MI 48116-5691
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N150ME links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2 47 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Solo 2350 series 41 aircraft with this engine series · 26 hp
- Sandhill Soaring Club INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Brighton, MI 98 aircraft registered in this town
- Brighton Airport · 45G
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2 3 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N150ME, 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 Sandhill Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 13, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 16, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N150ME 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N150ME. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data