Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6
N38KM is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6, a glider with no engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated October 21, 1999.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS A/16.6
- Serial number
- 94
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A459DE (octal 51054736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · October 21, 1999
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00395842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kalapos Bela L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9613 Crescent Garden Dr F201
Naples, FL 34109
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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 N38KM, 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 Kalapos Bela L, an individual, certificate issued April 1, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 1999, 17 years after the 1982 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 94 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38KM 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 N38KM. 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