Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-3DM
N3KG is a Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS-3DM, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ps Soaring INC, a corporation in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 24, 2004.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- NIMBUS-3DM · all NIMBUS-3DMs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating) · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A31B88 (octal 50615610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · July 24, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00077859
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ps Soaring INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2307 Purdue Mountain Rd
Bellefonte, PA 16823-8803
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3KG, 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 Ps Soaring INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 24, 2004, 16 years after the 1988 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3KG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grant Kenneth R SKYBOLT (serial 3KG, cancelled April 3, 2000). 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 N3KG. 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