Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N256K is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bellingham, Washington. 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 26, 2010. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS
- Serial number
- 306CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A26EA9 (octal 50467251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 26, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00062839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hornal Douglas L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 527 Lyla Ln
Bellingham, WA 98225-7850
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N256K, 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 Hornal Douglas L, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2010, 7 years after the 2003 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 306CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N256K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hickok Clarence W GYMNICK AMER GLIDER (serial 1, cancelled January 7, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N256K. 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