Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS
N726MC is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated March 8, 1973.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- STANDARD CIRRUS · all STANDARD CIRRUSs 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 STANDARD CIRRUS 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
- 289G
- 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
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A9BAEC (octal 52335354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 8, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00271668
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Okeson Trent J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 702 Winter Pines Ct
Spring, TX 77373-7921
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N726MC links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS 64 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Spring, TX 258 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS 7 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N726MC, 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 Okeson Trent J, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated March 8, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 289G for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N726MC 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 N726MC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data