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N248CA

Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS

Valid Electric gliderCalifornia

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
DISCUS CS
Serial number
248CS
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A24DEA (octal 50446752)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 10, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 6, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 21, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00583856

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coyne Charles A
Type
Co-owned
Address
1313 Paseo Alamos
San Dimas, CA 91773-4240
Co-owners
Bijl Janette Aa

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

2007-01-12Embraer EMB-120RT · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Coyne Charles A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 248CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N248CA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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