Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N888TK is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B, a glider with no engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bringhurst, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 28, 2000.
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
- 134
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AC3D40 (octal 53036500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 28, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00265650
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cloclasure David L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4091 S 95 E
Bringhurst, IN 46913-8246 - Co-owners
- Ortman Scot A
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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 N888TK, 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 Cloclasure David L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 2, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 28, 2000, 14 years after the 1986 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N888TK 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]
1 NTSB record under N888TK: Accident on August 5, 2006 at Tipton, IN: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Shempp-Hirth Discuss B · operated under 091
The glider pilot's improper in-flight decision to continue searching for thermal lift, instead of landing when the glider was in range of a suitable landing area. Contributing factors to the accident was the lack of thermal lift which resulted in a hard landing in the cornfield.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06CA219 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data