Schempp-Hirth VENTUS B/16.6
N81PT is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS B/16.6, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated November 22, 1985.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS B/16.6
- Serial number
- 258
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB085A (octal 52604132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · November 22, 1985
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00163295
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leonard Steven E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11117 W Westlawn St
Wichita, KS 67212-6411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N81PT, 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 Leonard Steven E, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81PT 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]
1 NTSB record under N81PT: Accident on April 7, 1991 at Lake Cobb, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS B/16.6 · operated under 091
THAT THE PILOT'S VISUAL LOOKOUT WAS IMPROPER. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE UNMARKED TRANSMISSION WIRE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA163 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data