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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Schempp-Hirth ARCUS
N189DT is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS, a glider with turbojet engines, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sucra LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 12, 2018.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 5:34 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS
- Serial number
- 25
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Pbs TJ100 · 1,250 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A16278 (octal 50261170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 12, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01271438
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sucra LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N189DT links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Pbs TJ100 10 aircraft with this engine series · 1,250 lb thrust
- Sucra LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalispell, MT 1,287 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,047 aircraft registered
- Where N189DT is now · Last seen October 8 at 5:34 pm.
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The public federal record on N189DT, 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 Sucra LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated February 12, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N189DT 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 N189DT. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data