Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N948B is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 16, 1982.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B
- Serial number
- 56
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AD2AF9 (octal 53225371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 16, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00900011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gordon Zach Edward
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 31230 Lockshire Valley Ln
Spring, TX 77386-4315
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N948B, 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 Gordon Zach Edward, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 16, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N948B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 23 (serial M-1, cancelled September 3, 1965). 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]
1 NTSB record under N948B: Accident on February 23, 1998 at Williams, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate clearance from the oil drilling rig due to his attention being diverted inside the cockpit in order the secure the landing gear control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98LA092 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data