Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES
N616JG is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ruby Crest LLC, an LLC in Girdwood, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated March 26, 2018.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- DISCUS-2C FES
- Serial number
- 17
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A805D7 (octal 52002727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · March 26, 2018
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01255841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruby Crest LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1047
Girdwood, AK 99587-1047
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
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The public federal record on N616JG, 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 Ruby Crest LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 1, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated March 26, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N616JG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 0151, cancelled December 22, 2008). 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 N616JG. 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