Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6
N166W is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6, a glider with no engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 31, 1987.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS A/16.6
- Serial number
- 343
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A109EC (octal 50204754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · July 31, 1987
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00373881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kuenzi Steven M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18 Lady Of The Mountain Rd
Alamogordo, NM 88310-9506
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N166W, 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 Kuenzi Steven M, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 31, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N166W 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]
1 NTSB record under N166W: Accident on June 1, 1994 at Fairfield, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-C · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE MANEUVER.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data