Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E
N688JL is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Delavan, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 8, 2024.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3E
- Serial number
- 251ES
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Solo EMRAX 208 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A921C2 (octal 52220702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · September 8, 2024
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01468562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lincoln John C II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- W6980 Savannah Ln
Delavan, WI 53115-4303
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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 N688JL, 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 Lincoln John C II, an individual, certificate issued September 5, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 8, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 251ES for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N688JL 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 N688JL. 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