Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F
N329HB is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Long Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated November 18, 2022.
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
- 155 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A39070 (octal 50710160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · November 18, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01381793
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bohl Howard M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2512 Vuelta Grande Ave
Long Beach, CA 90815-2314
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N329HB links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3 29 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 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
- Long Beach, CA 226 aircraft registered in this town
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) · LGB
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N329HB, 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 Bohl Howard M, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated November 18, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 155 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N329HB 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 N329HB. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data