Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS 3
N32BN 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 Llano, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 18, 1983.
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
- 32
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A36C1D (octal 50666035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 1999
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 18, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00722083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gravance John R JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 32016 Crystalaire Dr
Llano, CA 93544-1203
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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 N32BN, 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 Gravance John R JR, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 1999, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 18, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32BN 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 N32BN. 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