Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS
N90BP is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Philadelphia Glider Council INC, a corporation in Hilltown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for other, dated July 14, 2004.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU
- Model
- DUO DISCUS · all DUO DISCUSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 414
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AC6CFA (octal 53066372)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Other · July 14, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00118119
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Philadelphia Glider Council INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 122
Hilltown, PA 18927-0122
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90BP, 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 Philadelphia Glider Council INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for other, dated July 14, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 414 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90BP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C90 (serial LJ718, cancelled February 28, 1996). 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]
1 NTSB record under N90BP: Accident on August 7, 1993 at Augusta, GA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Beech C-90 · operated under 135
WAS THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY EVALUATE INFLIGHT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF CONTROL WHEN THE AIRPLANE ENCOUNTERED A THUNDERSTORM.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL93FA143 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
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