Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B
N523RR is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 2009. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fallbrook, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 11, 2009.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH
- Model
- DISCUS-2B · all DISCUS-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 232
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A6959A (octal 51512632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01032589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glenn Tom
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2737
Fallbrook, CA 92088-2737
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 N523RR, 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 Glenn Tom, an individual, certificate issued July 9, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated July 11, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N523RR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45231, cancelled September 28, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N523RR: Accident on July 27, 1991 at Lake Alpine, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L-1 · operated under 133
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91TL#08 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
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