Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3M
N52BF is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3M, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 14, 2026.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3M · all VENTUS 3Ms 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 3 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
- 269 MP
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Solo 2625 01 · 53 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A686B4 (octal 51503264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 20, 2026
- 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 14, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01550164
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Feiges William
- 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
- PO Box 774347
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-4347
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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 N52BF links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3 29 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Solo 2625 01 39 aircraft with this engine series · 53 hp
- Steamboat Springs, CO 80 aircraft registered in this town
- Steamboat Springs/Bob Adams Field · SBS
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N52BF, 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 Feiges William, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 14, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 269 MP for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52BF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S.O.C.A.T.A. MS894A (serial 12008, cancelled May 15, 2017). 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 N52BF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data