Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT
N974S is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CT, a glider with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Beaver Dams, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 4, 2013. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS 2CT
- Serial number
- 233
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Solo 2350 SER · 26 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD9411 (octal 53312021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · September 4, 2013
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01131570
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Claude M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 471 Post Creek Rd
Beaver Dams, NY 14812-9124
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Documents on file 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N974S, 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 Sullivan Claude M, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 233 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N974S according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N974S. 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