Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS
N533BG is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lafayette, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 17, 2007.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU
- Model
- DUO DISCUS
- Serial number
- 533
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6BBB2 (octal 51535662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 17, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00387709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Guerin Marianne
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3389 Angelo St
Lafayette, CA 94549-2301 - Co-owners
- Suter Laurence / Van Nierop Ernst
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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 N533BG, 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 Guerin Marianne, a co-owned, certificate issued November 5, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 17, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 533 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N533BG 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 N533BG: Accident on July 1, 2011 at Stonewall, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau DUO DISCUS · operated under 091
The loss of directional control during an off-field landing in gusting wind.
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- 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