Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N560R is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tempe, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 26, 1989.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B · all DISCUS Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 147
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A72861 (octal 51624141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 26, 1989
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00153901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prokes William J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 826 E Dava Dr
Tempe, AZ 85281
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N560R, 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 Prokes William J, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2002, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 26, 1989, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N560R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dassault FALCON 20 F (serial 313, cancelled April 11, 1985); Douglas DC3A (serial 4080, cancelled June 30, 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 N560R. 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