Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2C
N23LB is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2C, a glider with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 15, 1995.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-2C · all VENTUS-2Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A20723 (octal 50403443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · August 15, 1995
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00325522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walker Robert S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13100 Osage Rd
Anchorage, KY 40223-1560
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N23LB, 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 Walker Robert S, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 15, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23LB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH837, cancelled February 24, 1993). 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 N23LB: Accident on July 8, 1992 at Pierce, ID: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Beech 58 · operated under 091
INFLIGHT LOSS OF CONTROL WHEN AIRCRAFT CONTROL WAS NOT MAINTAINED. FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA92FA154 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