{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-12-05","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-25","city":"PIPERSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-25","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801901","mode_s_code":"50063224","mode_s_hex":"A06694","model":"DUO DISCUS","n_number":"N125DD","name":"ARNOLD WILLIAM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MINDEN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-07-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX97LA265","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to ensure that the wings were maintained at a lateral level attitude during the initial landing rollout.  A factor in the accident was the rough, uneven nature of the terrain chosen for the landing.","registration":"N125DD","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on July 24, 1997 at Minden, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N125DD is a Schempp-Hirth DUO DISCUS, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Pipersville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 5, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Arnold William, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated December 5, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 103 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N125DD according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N125DD: Accident on July 24, 1997 at Minden, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"103","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6201 KELLERS CHURCH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00146311","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N125DD","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"189471807"}