Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2A
N917VW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2A, a glider with no engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Moretown, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated September 26, 2003.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2A · all VENTUS 2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 153
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- ACB29C (octal 53131234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · September 26, 2003
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00064849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Larsen Robert T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 467
Moretown, VT 05660-0467
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N917VW, 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 Larsen Robert T, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated September 26, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N917VW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Presco Joseph D FTF-2 (serial 06, cancelled June 18, 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 N917VW. 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