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N77SW

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT

Valid Electric gliderTexas

N77SW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mansfield, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 13, 2006.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS 2CT
Serial number
169
Type
Glider
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2006
Transponder code
AA6853 (octal 52464123)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 28, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 13, 2006
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00247699

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Westbrook Michael S
Type
Individual
Address
1102 Old Dominion Pl
Mansfield, TX 76063-2515

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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 N77SW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Westbrook Michael S, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 13, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N77SW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N77SW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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