Schempp-Hirth VENTUS C
N400CF is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS C, a glider with no engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rch Palos Vr, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 1991 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 31, 1988.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS C · all VENTUS Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 371
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A4ACD9 (octal 51126331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 1991
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 31, 1988
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00613752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Koerner Michael S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4023 Exultant Dr
Rch Palos Vr, CA 90275-6038
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N400CF, 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 Koerner Michael S, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 1991, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 31, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 371 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N400CF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 1553, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N400CF. 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