Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M
N199DZ is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Katy, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 12, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS M · all ARCUS Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 158
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Solo 2625 02 · 64 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A189FD (octal 50304775)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 12, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01244548
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27306 Hollow Pass Ln
Katy, TX 77494-2737
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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N199DZ, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 12, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N199DZ 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 N199DZ. 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