{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2009-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-11-28","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","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":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3801902","mode_s_code":"50312020","mode_s_hex":"A19410","model":"DISCUS 2A","n_number":"N200X","name":"MARCUS HOOK GLIDER WORKS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SALT LAKE CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-09-27","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA93LA208","probable_cause":"A POWER LOSS FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. FACTORS INCLUDE A FENCE, AN ANIMAL, AND A DITCH IN THE LANDING ROLL PATH.","registration":"N200X","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on September 27, 1993 at Salt Lake City, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N200X is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS 2A, a glider with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Marcus Hook Glider Works, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 26, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Marcus Hook Glider Works, a corporation, certificate issued November 28, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 2009, 10 years after the 1999 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N200X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-150 (serial 23931, cancelled June 4, 1997). 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":"1 NTSB record under N200X: Accident on September 27, 1993 at Salt Lake City, UT: minor 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"51","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"251 LITTLE FALLS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00376052","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N200X","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"198081674"}