Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B
N257SB is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2002 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated September 27, 2002.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS-2B · all DISCUS-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 145
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A27311 (octal 50471421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2002
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · September 27, 2002
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00003329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Duncan Marvin H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 94 Beacon St
Marblehead, MA 01945-2623
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N257SB, 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 Duncan Marvin H JR, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2002, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated September 27, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257SB 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 N257SB. 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