Schempp-Hirth CIRRUS
N404ES is a Schempp-Hirth CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- CIRRUS · all CIRRUSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 44
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BBF2 (octal 51135762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00001104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hardy John A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 912 Betton Pl
El Paso, TX 79928-4421
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N404ES, 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 Hardy John A, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N404ES according to the deregistered file. [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 N404ES. 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