Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N90VV is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Muncie, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 18, 2009.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B
- Serial number
- 81
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC6EC2 (octal 53067302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · July 18, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00331711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Russell Tipton J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3703 N Lakeside Dr
Muncie, IN 47304-6344
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90VV, 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 Russell Tipton J, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90VV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vogel Valentine W LANCAIR 320/360 (serial 260, cancelled September 7, 2001). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N90VV. 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