Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS
N2429 is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maize, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 20, 1971.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- STANDARD CIRRUS
- Serial number
- 118
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A23B00 (octal 50435400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · July 20, 1971
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00252582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bittner Charles K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10898 W Sondra St
Maize, KS 67101-9043
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2429, 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 Bittner Charles K, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 20, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2429 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson SR-10F (serial 7-5837, cancelled February 23, 1956). 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 N2429. 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