Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS
N86BG is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS CS, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Troy, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 19, 1997.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS CS
- Serial number
- 238CS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ABCC9E (octal 52746236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · December 19, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00376941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Andrews Ashleigh G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11199 Vaughn Rd
Troy, TX 76579-3633
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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 N86BG, 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 Andrews Ashleigh G, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 19, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 238CS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N86BG 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 N86BG. 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