Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS
N175DD is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Minden Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Genoa, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated September 17, 1998.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 11:37 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU
- Model
- DUO DISCUS · all DUO DISCUSs 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 DUO DISCUS 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
- 175
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A12C0F (octal 50226017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 17, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00943736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Minden 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 361
Genoa, NV 89411-0361
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.
Connections how N175DD links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS 29 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Minden Soaring Club INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Genoa, NV 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS 7 airworthiness directives
- Where N175DD is now · Last seen Monday at 11:37 am.
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The public federal record on N175DD, 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 Minden Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated September 17, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 175 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N175DD 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 N175DD. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data