Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F
N355RC is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Germantown, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 2, 2022.
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
- 163 FS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Lz Design FES-VEN-M100 · 81 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A3F8DA (octal 50774332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · April 2, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01362486
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carlson Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 20465 Sunbright Ln
Germantown, MD 20874-1090
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N355RC, 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 Carlson Richard, an individual, certificate issued March 22, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 2, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N355RC 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 N355RC. 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