Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N16AH is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in North Branford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS · all DISCUS CSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 288CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0EF5D (octal 50167535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2002
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00294177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hansson Arne G MD
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 75 Great Hill Rd
North Branford, CT 06471-1416
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16AH, 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 Hansson Arne G MD, an individual, certificate issued March 25, 2002, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 288CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16AH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Harris Alvin R BEESON BIPLANE BB-2 (serial 1145, cancelled August 4, 1999). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N16AH. 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 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
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