Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT
N78FA is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 24, 2008.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2CT
- Serial number
- 202
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Solo 2350 SER · 26 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AA8EAB (octal 52507253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · January 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00453669
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barchie James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24906 Auburn Bend Dr
Spring, TX 77389-4355
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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 N78FA, 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 Barchie James A, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 24, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78FA 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 N78FA. 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