Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M
N38EE is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Arcus Holdings LLC, an LLC in West Hartford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated December 19, 2025.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS M
- Serial number
- 288
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Solo 262502I · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A4595A (octal 51054532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · December 19, 2025
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01483997
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arcus Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 270046
West Hartford, CT 06127-0046
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
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The public federal record on N38EE, 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 Arcus Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 30, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated December 19, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 288 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38EE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182N (serial 18260257, cancelled October 30, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N38EE: Accident on January 26, 2017 at Midland, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA129 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data