Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N1428B is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kokomo, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 19, 1984.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B
- Serial number
- 37
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A0AD90 (octal 50126620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · April 19, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00292751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Richard G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2124 Chevy Ct
Kokomo, IN 46902-2530
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1428B, 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 Smith Richard G, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 1984, 3 years after the 1981 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 37 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1428B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8F (serial 6055, cancelled August 30, 1955). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1428B. 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 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