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Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A
N49379 is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A, a glider with no engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to United States Southwest Soaring Museum (Usssm), a corporation in Moriarty, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 23, 1984.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH K G
- Model
- VENTUS A · all VENTUS As and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 58
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A61EAC (octal 51417254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 23, 1984
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00590615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Southwest Soaring Museum (Usssm)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 3626
Moriarty, NM 87035-3626
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N49379 links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A 5 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- United States Southwest Soaring Museum (Usssm) 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Moriarty, NM 42 aircraft registered in this town
- Moriarty Municipal · 0E0
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N49379, 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 United States Southwest Soaring Museum (Usssm), a corporation, certificate issued June 18, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated April 23, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 58 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N49379 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75 (serial 75796, cancelled December 12, 1983). 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 N49379. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data