Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N3DD is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 17, 1987.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B · all DISCUS Bs 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 DISCUS B 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
- 145
- 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
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A31AEF (octal 50615357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 8, 2025
- 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 · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 17, 1987
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00395360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tirca Laviniu H
- 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
- 155 Shurs Ln
Philadelphia, PA 19127-1722
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3DD links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B 29 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Philadelphia, PA 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Northeast Philadelphia Airport · PNE
- Philadelphia International · PHL
- Wings Field · LOM
- Penn'S Landing Heliport · P72
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N3DD, 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 Tirca Laviniu H, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 17, 1987, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3DD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Doyle B-8M (serial DD1, cancelled date not given). 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 N3DD. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data