Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT
N697MH is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hickory, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 26, 2006.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2CT
- Serial number
- 163
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A945D2 (octal 52242722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · January 26, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00224859
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pate Earl G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4460 3Rd St NW
Hickory, NC 28601-9008
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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 N697MH, 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 Pate Earl G, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 26, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N697MH 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 N697MH. 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