Schempp-Hirth DISCUS A
N67WS is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS A, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Escondido, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated February 20, 1985.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS A
- Serial number
- 8
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8DB64 (octal 52155544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · February 20, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00253196
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hopke Kurt Ervin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1502 Sedona Gin
Escondido, CA 92027
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N67WS, 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 Hopke Kurt Ervin, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N67WS 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 N67WS. 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