M&D Flugzeugbau JS-MD 3 RES
N178BH is a M&D Flugzeugbau JS-MD 3 RES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in S San Fran, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 15, 2024.
M&D Flugzeugbau: JS-MD 3 RES
Aircraft
- Maker
- M&D Flugzeugbau (Germany)FAA spelling: M&D FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- JS-MD 3 RES
- Serial number
- 3.MD209
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A13706 (octal 50233406)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 15, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01442340
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hirashima Benjamin J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 232 Hazelwood Dr
S San Fran, CA 94080-5805
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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N178BH, 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 Hirashima Benjamin J, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 15, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3.MD209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N178BH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800XP (serial 258538, cancelled January 31, 2020). 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 N178BH. 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