Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS
N3698 is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Cromwell, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1973.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- STANDARD CIRRUS
- Serial number
- 297G
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A4312B (octal 51030453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 27, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00603353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Abair Alan A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9243 E Crooked Mile Rd
Cromwell, IN 46732-9620
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 N3698, 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 Abair Alan A, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 297G for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3698 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-37 (serial UNKNOWN, cancelled January 7, 1930). 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 N3698. 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