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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N511RD is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kansas City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 19, 1983.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B · all VENTUS-Bs 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-B 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
- 110
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A666A1 (octal 51463241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 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 · December 19, 1983
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00820904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meacham Bruce
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4860 N 123Rd St
Kansas City, KS 66109-3803
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N511RD links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B 28 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
- Kansas City, KS 41 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N511RD.json.
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The public federal record on N511RD, 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 Meacham Bruce, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N511RD 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 N511RD. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data