Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT
N88FD is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lathrop, California. 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 March 17, 1986.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS BT
- Serial number
- 64
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Solo 2350 SER · 26 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AC1BFD (octal 53015775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · March 17, 1986
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00812386
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skoglund Magnus B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17133 Iron Horse Trl
Lathrop, CA 95330-8645
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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 N88FD, 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 Skoglund Magnus B, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated March 17, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88FD 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 N88FD. 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