Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M
N881BF is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS M, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 4, 2020.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS M
- Serial number
- 225
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Solo 262502I · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AC21AB (octal 53020653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · December 4, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01329566
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Feiges William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 774347
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-4347
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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 N881BF, 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 Feiges William, an individual, certificate issued June 26, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 4, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N881BF 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 N881BF. 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