Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N630CK is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to 630Ck Partners LLC, an LLC in Midlothian, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 11, 2000.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS · all DISCUS CSs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 274 CS
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A83DF8 (octal 52036770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 11, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00695920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 630Ck Partners LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3041 Keri Ln
Midlothian, TX 76065-6609
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N630CK links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS 36 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- 630Ck Partners LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Midlothian, TX 184 aircraft registered in this town
- Eagle'S Nest Estates Airport · T56
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N630CK.json.
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The public federal record on N630CK, 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 630Ck Partners LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 26, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated August 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 274 CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N630CK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N630CK. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data