{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2018-03-26","airworthiness_ops":"Racing","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-01","city":"GIRDWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","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":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-01","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3802005","mode_s_code":"52002727","mode_s_hex":"A805D7","model":"DISCUS-2C FES","n_number":"N616JG","name":"RUBY CREST LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N616JG is a Schempp-Hirth DISCUS-2C FES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ruby Crest LLC, an LLC in Girdwood, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated March 26, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ruby Crest LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 1, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing, dated March 26, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N616JG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 0151, cancelled December 22, 2008). 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 N616JG. 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"17","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1047","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01255841","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N616JG","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"995871047"}