Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS
N98SB is a Schempp-Hirth STANDARD CIRRUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Romulus, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1973.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- STANDARD CIRRUS
- Serial number
- 312
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAA5D (octal 53325135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 27, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00513800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vandyke Mark A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5048 State Route 96A
Romulus, NY 14541-9767
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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 N98SB, 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 Vandyke Mark A, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98SB 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 N98SB. 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