Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N87BD is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rensselaer, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B · all DISCUS Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 78
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABF41A (octal 52772032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00334318
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harrison Lee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 98 Van Dyke Dr S
Rensselaer, NY 12144-9502
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.
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The public federal record on N87BD, 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 Harrison Lee, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87BD 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 N87BD. 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