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N8096

Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS

Valid Electric gliderMichigan

N8096 is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Raetech Motorsports INC, a corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated March 18, 1972.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
STANDARD CIRRUS · all STANDARD CIRRUSs and related versions
Serial number
166
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
AB0676 (octal 52603166)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 7, 2020
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · March 18, 1972
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00810412

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Raetech Motorsports INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4750 Venture Dr Ste 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9505

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1933-12-24Federal Aircraft Factory CM3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8096, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Raetech Motorsports INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 7, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated March 18, 1972, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8096 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Federal Aircraft Factory CM3 (serial 4, cancelled December 24, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8096. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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