Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B
N61XC is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Westford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 1, 1996. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-2B · all VENTUS-2Bs 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-2 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
- 31
- 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
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A7EE75 (octal 51767165)
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 20, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 1, 1996
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00935941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stewart James R
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7 Rooks Way
Westford, MA 01886-2881 - Co-owners
- Stewart Scot T / Morzillo James L
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 1
Connections how N61XC links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 70 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
- Westford, MA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Massachusetts 2,646 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N61XC, 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 Stewart James R, a co-owned, certificate issued March 20, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated May 1, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61XC according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 28, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N61XC: Accident on September 18, 2026 at Edinburg, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schemp-Hirth Ventus · operated under 091
On September 18, 2026, about 1426 eastern daylight time, a Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2B glider, N61XC, and a Schleicher ASW-24 glider, N94CG, collided in flight near Edinburg, New York. The pilot of the Schempp-Hirth was fatally injured and the glider was destroyed. The pilot of the Schleicher was not injured and the glider was substantially damaged. The gliders were operated as Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flights. The pilot of the Schleicher glider stated that there were four gliders flying in a thermal. They were flying at an altitude of about 5,000 ft mean sea level wh…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data