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
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-2C
- Serial number
- 45
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A3BF0C (octal 50737414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · May 28, 1999
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00605682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joyce David B
- Type
- Individual
- 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.
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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]
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA111 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data