Schempp-Hirth MINI-NIMBUS B
N4989C is a Schempp-Hirth MINI-NIMBUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Saint Louis, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 23, 1983.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- MINI-NIMBUS B
- Serial number
- 79
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A63166 (octal 51430546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 23, 1983
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00070805
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bernatz Gerald F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3624 Colonia Place Dr Apt 1
Saint Louis, MO 63125-4472
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4989C, 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 Bernatz Gerald F, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 1983, 5 years after the 1978 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 79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4989C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brantly B-2 (serial 24, cancelled December 17, 1970). 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 N4989C. 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