Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT
N88SZ is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maineville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated January 15, 2015.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2CT · all VENTUS 2CTs and related versions
- Serial number
- 220
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Solo 2350 SER · 26 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AC1D24 (octal 53016444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · January 15, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01167582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maurer Manfred F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5456 Grandin Pass Ct
Maineville, OH 45039-8416
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N88SZ, 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 Maurer Manfred F, an individual, certificate issued September 4, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 2015, 6 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88SZ 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 N88SZ. 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