Schempp-Hirth JANUS
N90180 is a Schempp-Hirth JANUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Silent Soarers INC, a corporation in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated November 8, 1976.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH K.G.
- Model
- JANUS
- Serial number
- 4
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AC766C (octal 53073154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · November 8, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00831371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Silent Soarers INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1420 Minnesota Ave SE
Washington, DC 20020-5637
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N90180, 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 Silent Soarers INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2008, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated November 8, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90180 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9245, cancelled June 24, 1970). 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 N90180. 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