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N97RD

Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS

Valid Electric gliderTexas

N97RD is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 27, 1973.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
STANDARD CIRRUS
Serial number
288G
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
AD82C7 (octal 53301307)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 2, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 2, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · February 27, 1973
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00523462

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hall John E
Type
Individual
Address
4426 Clearwater Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78413-2620

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N97RD, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hall John E, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated February 27, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 288G for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N97RD according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N97RD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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