Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N16JJ is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Luis Obispo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 20, 1986.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B
- Serial number
- 97
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A0F026 (octal 50170046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · May 20, 1986
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00970047
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eggert Darrell R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4661 Snapdragon Way
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7694
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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 N16JJ, 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 Eggert Darrell R, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated May 20, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 97 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16JJ 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 N16JJ. 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