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N999WR

Schempp-Hirth JANUS C

Valid Electric gliderIndiana

N999WR is a Schempp-Hirth JANUS C, a glider with no engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Village, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 24, 1983.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH K.G.
Model
JANUS C
Serial number
8
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
2
Year built
1982
Transponder code
ADF616 (octal 53373026)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 20, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · June 24, 1983
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00182952

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rudloff Uwe K Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 152
Lake Village, IN 46349-0152

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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 N999WR, 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 Rudloff Uwe K Trustee, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 24, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N999WR 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 N999WR. 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