{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2001-01-09","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-18","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-18","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801904","mode_s_code":"50121321","mode_s_hex":"A0A2D1","model":"DISCUS-2B","n_number":"N140BH","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N140BH is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 9, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued August 18, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 9, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 85 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N140BH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hunsaker Ben W HEATH SUPER PARASOL (serial 014, cancelled September 10, 1998); S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1138, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N140BH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"85","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00043765","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N140BH","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":""}