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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M
N742P is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 12, 2025.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 10:22 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS M · all ARCUS Ms 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 ARCUS M 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
- 269
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Solo 262502I · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A9FB3D (octal 52375475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2023
- 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 12, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01408647
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Payne James M
- 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
- 2944 Sonoma Ct
Minden, NV 89423-7504
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N742P links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M 17 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
- Solo 262502I 19 aircraft with this engine series · 68 hp
- Minden, NV 97 aircraft registered in this town
- Minden-Tahoe Airport · MEV
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- Where N742P is now · Last seen October 10 at 10:22 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N742P.json.
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The public federal record on N742P, 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 Payne James M, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated May 12, 2025, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 269 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N742P 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 N742P. 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