Schempp-Hirth DISCUS B
N97DG 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 Saratoga Springs, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 27, 2001.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- DISCUS B
- Serial number
- 108
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AD819E (octal 53300636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 27, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00070897
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loeffler Herbert M JR
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 3484
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-8010 - Co-owners
- Allen William J
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.
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The public federal record on N97DG, 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 Loeffler Herbert M JR, a co-owned, certificate issued April 28, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2001, 15 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 108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97DG 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 N97DG. 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