Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N520RJ is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skyline Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Front Royal, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 4, 1996.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS · all DISCUS CSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 217CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A68A6E (octal 51505156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 4, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00745991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skyline Soaring Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 424A South St # 172
Front Royal, VA 22630-2116
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N520RJ, 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 Skyline Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 17, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 4, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 217CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N520RJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N520RJ: Accident on October 8, 2022 at Woodstock, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS · operated under 091
Improper repair of a crack by maintenance personnel, which resulted in a subsequent failure of the glider canopy.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA013 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data