Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS 3T
N141V is a Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS 3T, a glider with no engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 13, 2022.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- NIMBUS 3T
- Serial number
- 3
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A0A842 (octal 50124102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · April 13, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00901743
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellertson Don R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5218 Steveann St
Torrance, CA 90503-5362
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N141V, 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 Ellertson Don R, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 2022, 39 years after the 1983 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N141V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 (serial 83, cancelled September 10, 1934). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N141V: Accident on July 30, 1986 at Hawthorne, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS IIIT · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA86LA197 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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