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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Schempp-Hirth ARCUS
N887DT is a Schempp-Hirth ARCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Perlan Project INC, a corporation in Beaverton, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 27, 2016.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- ARCUS
- Serial number
- 20
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- AC3833 (octal 53034063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01229231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Perlan Project INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7415 SW Hart Pl
Beaverton, OR 97008-6231
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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
Connections how N887DT links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Perlan Project INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Beaverton, OR 113 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N887DT, 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 Perlan Project INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 25, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 27, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N887DT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1329-25 JETSTAR II (serial 5223, cancelled September 19, 2008). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N887DT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data