Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N7HV is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Long Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 27, 2000.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS
- Serial number
- 265CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9509F (octal 52250237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 27, 2000
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00525680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krautter David L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 388 E Ocean Blvd Unit P1
Long Beach, CA 90802-5281 - Co-owners
- Mccarthy Evan S
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7HV, 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 Krautter David L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 12, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 27, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 265CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7HV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-180 (serial 28R30927, cancelled January 23, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N7HV: Accident on August 2, 2009 at Williams, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp Hirth DISCUS CS · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with terrain after intentionally releasing from the tow plane at a low altitude during the initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09LA381 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data