Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2C
N340TW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2C, a glider with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Brookline, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 28, 1999.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 2:15 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-2C · all VENTUS-2Cs 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-2 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
- 45
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A3BF0C (octal 50737414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2025
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 1999
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00605682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joyce David B
- 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
- 15 Milford St
Brookline, NH 03033-2444
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N340TW links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 70 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
- Brookline, NH 33 aircraft registered in this town
- New Hampshire 1,564 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 5 airworthiness directives
- Where N340TW is now · Last seen October 15 at 2:15 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N340TW.json.
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The public federal record on N340TW, 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 Joyce David B, an individual, certificate issued May 15, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated May 28, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N340TW 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]
1 NTSB record under N340TW: Accident on April 22, 2006 at Midlothian, TX: serious injuries, minor 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: Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2C · operated under 091
The inadvertent deployment of the spoilers during the aero tow takeoff for undetermined reasons, resulting in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data