Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N12VF is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hornbrook, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 1998 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 9, 1983.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B · all VENTUS-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 113
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A0533A (octal 50051472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 1998
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 9, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00482062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pfiffner Richard H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3901 River Ct
Hornbrook, CA 96044-9737
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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 N12VF, 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.
Valid registration to Pfiffner Richard H, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 1998, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 9, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 113 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12VF according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12VF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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