Schempp-Hirth VENTUS B/16.6
N48DM is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS B/16.6, a glider with no engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 28, 1985.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS B/16.6
- Serial number
- 201
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A5E697 (octal 51363227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 28, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00180135
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Osterlund Stanislav
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 711 Seabright Ave Apt 8
Santa Cruz, CA 95062-3455
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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 N48DM, 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 Osterlund Stanislav, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 28, 1985, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 201 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48DM 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 N48DM. 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