Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS
N990DD is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Richardson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 9, 2026.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- DUO DISCUS
- Serial number
- 005
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Schemp Hir FES-DUO-M 100 · 30 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- ADD2F2 (octal 53351362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · January 9, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01533823
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gibbons Robert C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 790 Parkview Cir
Richardson, TX 75080
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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 N990DD, 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 Gibbons Robert C, an individual, certificate issued December 15, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 9, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N990DD 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 N990DD. 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