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N328TW

Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B

Valid Electric gliderNorth Carolina

N328TW is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pfafftown, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 29, 2007.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH
Model
DISCUS-2B
Serial number
228
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A38DC6 (octal 50706706)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 7, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 7, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · August 29, 2007
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00393429

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alspaugh George J
Type
Individual
Address
105 Bashavia Woods Trl
Pfafftown, NC 27040-9619

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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 N328TW, 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 Alspaugh George J, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated August 29, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N328TW according to the deregistered file. [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 N328TW. 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