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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS T
N250AR is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS T, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Thermal Research CORP, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated July 26, 2024.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- DUO DISCUS T · all DUO DISCUS Ts 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 DUO DISCUS T 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
- 001
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A2578E (octal 50453616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2024
- 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 26, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01460390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thermal Research CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3520 Hopestill Rd
Pensacola, FL 32503-4246
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N250AR links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS T 8 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
- Type certificate G19CE · held by Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GMBH
- Thermal Research CORP 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pensacola, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Pensacola International · PNS
- Roscoe Field · 82J
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS T 9 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N250AR.json.
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The public federal record on N250AR, 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 Thermal Research CORP, a corporation, certificate issued July 15, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 26, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N250AR 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 N250AR. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data