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N4644S

Schempp-Hirth STANDARD AUSTRIA S

Valid Electric gliderMichigan

N4644S is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD AUSTRIA S, a glider with no engine, built in 1963. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Middleville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1964.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
STANDARD AUSTRIA S
Serial number
39
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A5AB6C (octal 51325554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 18, 2012
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 31, 1964
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00533204

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bracy Rodney E
Type
Individual
Address
11805 Davis Rd
Middleville, MI 49333-8654

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4644S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bracy Rodney E, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1964, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4644S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4644S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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