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
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2CT · all VENTUS 2CTs 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
- 163
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A945D2 (octal 52242722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 26, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00224859
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pate Earl G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N697MH links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 70 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hickory, NC 80 aircraft registered in this town
- Hickory Regional · HKY
- Wilson'S Airport · E40
- North Carolina 7,132 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 5 airworthiness directives
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data