Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-2C
N32A is a Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-2C, a glider with no engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 10, 1980.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH K.G.
- Model
- NIMBUS-2C · all NIMBUS-2Cs 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 NIMBUS-2 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
- 225
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A36BF7 (octal 50665767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 10, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00621683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moreland James R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3 Vista de Sandia
Sandia Park, NM 87047-9627
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N32A links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-2 5 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Sandia Park, NM 34 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,107 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-2 5 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N32A.json.
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The public federal record on N32A, 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 Moreland James R, an individual, certificate issued October 12, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated December 10, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32A 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 N32A. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data