Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2A
N58HR is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2A, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 22, 1998.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2A · all VENTUS 2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A7744E (octal 51672116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · June 22, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00457261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Norris James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4424 Nueces Dr
Santa Barbara, CA 93110-2006
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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 N58HR, 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 Norris James M, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2003, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 22, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N58HR 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 N58HR. 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