Schempp-Hirth JANUS-CM
N3918B is a Schempp-Hirth JANUS-CM, a glider with no engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mckinney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2006 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 7, 1983.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- JANUS-CM
- Serial number
- 9
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A489F2 (octal 51104762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2006
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 7, 1983
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00470614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Mark I
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10015 Jungmeister Ln
Mckinney, TX 75071-6570
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3918B, 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 Brown Mark I, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2006, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3918B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American F-51D (serial 12231579, cancelled December 22, 1949). 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 N3918B. 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