Schempp-Hirth VENTUS C
N44BV is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS C, a glider with no engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Castro Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 8, 1991.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS C
- Serial number
- 496
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A54871 (octal 51244161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 8, 1991
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00674862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richlife Quest A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2316 Somerset Ave
Castro Valley, CA 94546-4035
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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 N44BV, 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 Richlife Quest A, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 8, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N44BV 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 N44BV. 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