Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT
N166VT is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Panama City Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 18, 1987.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS BT
- Serial number
- 21
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A109E5 (octal 50204745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · February 18, 1987
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00562113
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Branham Ronald O
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 617 16Th St
Panama City Beach, FL 32413-3729 - Co-owners
- Branham Karen G
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N166VT, 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 Branham Ronald O, a co-owned, certificate issued July 11, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N166VT 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 N166VT. 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