Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B
N16MA is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 21, 2000.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-2B · all VENTUS-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 104
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0F069 (octal 50170151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 21, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00325840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Keil Carl
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9609 Taxiway Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4473
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N16MA, 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 Keil Carl, an individual, certificate issued January 16, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E (serial 1039, cancelled April 14, 1998). 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 N16MA: Accident on January 12, 1998 at Pensacola, FL: 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: Valentin TIAFUN 17E · operated under 091
the pilot's improper in-flight planning/decision and failure to see-and-avoid an obstruction during a precautionary landing on a paved road. Factors relating to the accident were: the resultant low fuel condition, and an obstruction in the precautionary landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98LA059 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