Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F
N620JJ is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3F, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 9, 2018.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3F
- Serial number
- 023 FS
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A8170E (octal 52013416)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · June 9, 2018
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01277809
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frantz James S JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1525 Red Ln
Salem, VA 24153
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N620JJ, 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 Frantz James S JR, an individual, certificate issued May 31, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 9, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 023 FS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N620JJ 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 N620JJ. 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