Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS
N72ZZ is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Redondo Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 29, 1972.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- STANDARD CIRRUS
- Serial number
- 221
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A38A (octal 52321612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 29, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00011327
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ravanfar Kia N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 307 Sapphire St Apt C
Redondo Beach, CA 90277-4274
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N72ZZ, 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 Ravanfar Kia N, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated August 29, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72ZZ 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 N72ZZ. 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