Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS 3
N3127Q is a Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS 3, a glider with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Marietta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated July 16, 1982.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- NIMBUS 3 · all NIMBUS 3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A3519B (octal 50650633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · July 16, 1982
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00091493
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Price Michael F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 801 Kellerman Kreek
Marietta, GA 30068-4771
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3127Q, 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 Price Michael F, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated July 16, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3127Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182K (serial 18258127, cancelled June 21, 1973). 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 N3127Q. 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