Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N248CA is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Dimas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 21, 2005.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS · all DISCUS CSs 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 DISCUS CS 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
- 248CS
- 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
- A24DEA (octal 50446752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583856
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coyne Charles A
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1313 Paseo Alamos
San Dimas, CA 91773-4240 - Co-owners
- Bijl Janette Aa
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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
Connections how N248CA links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS 36 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
- San Dimas, CA 20 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Channel, cracked · 2000-09-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Channel, cracked · 2000-09-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Channel, cracked · 2000-09-28
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The public federal record on N248CA, 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 Coyne Charles A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2005, 7 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 248CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N248CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.228, cancelled January 12, 2007). 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 N248CA. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data