Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F
N318KM is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Waller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 20, 2018.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3F
- Serial number
- 032 FS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Hirth FES VEN M100 · 31 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A36576 (octal 50662566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · July 20, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01279888
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorenson Kenneth G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30368 Waller Gladish Rd
Waller, TX 77484-3734
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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 N318KM, 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 Sorenson Kenneth G, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 20, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 032 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N318KM 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 N318KM. 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