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N928KE

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3G

Valid Electric gliderCalifornia

N928KE is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3G, a glider with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Menifee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated November 18, 2022.

Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH GMBH & CO
Model
VENTUS 3G · all VENTUS 3Gs and related versions
Serial number
178TS
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2022
Transponder code
ACDCC8 (octal 53156310)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2022
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · November 18, 2022
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01381443

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eyler Keith
Type
Individual
Address
33126 Jasper Cir
Menifee, CA 92584-8278

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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 N928KE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Eyler Keith, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated November 18, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178TS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N928KE according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N928KE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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