Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F
N23HW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to High Flight LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 10, 2021. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3F · all VENTUS 3Fs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 132 FS
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lz Design FES-VEN-M100 · 81 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A206EB (octal 50403353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 10, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01343213
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Flight LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N23HW links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3 30 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- LZ Design (FES) FES-VEN-M100 4 aircraft with this engine series · 81 hp
- High Flight LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Kalispell, MT 1,287 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N23HW, 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 High Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 2, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 10, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 132 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23HW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Weston Harold C MONI (serial 154, cancelled January 31, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N23HW. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data