Schempp-Hirth DISCUS 2A
N71EM is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS 2A, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 6, 2015.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS 2A · all DISCUS 2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 6
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A97A24 (octal 52275044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · July 6, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00003726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grandstaff Sylvia C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2313
Tehachapi, CA 93581-2313
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.
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The public federal record on N71EM, 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 Grandstaff Sylvia C, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 6, 2015, 17 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71EM 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 N71EM. 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