Schempp-Hirth MINI-NIMBUS C
N48Z is a Schempp-Hirth MINI-NIMBUS C, a glider with no engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oro Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 3, 1980.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH K G
- Model
- MINI-NIMBUS C
- Serial number
- 108
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A5E87F (octal 51364177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00610155
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moffett Paul L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 697 W Bright Canyon Dr
Oro Valley, AZ 85755-5732 - Co-owners
- Nonweiler Dalton W
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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 N48Z, 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 Moffett Paul L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 3, 1980, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48Z 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 N48Z. 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