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N97MH

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B

Valid Electric gliderCalifornia

N97MH is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B, a glider with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Monterey, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 21, 1995.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS-2B · all VENTUS-2Bs and related versions
Serial number
22
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1995
Transponder code
AD8267 (octal 53301147)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 21, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · November 21, 1995
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00835671

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ronat Ethan W
Type
Individual
Address
2299 Irving Ave
Monterey, CA 93940-2009

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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 N97MH, 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 Ronat Ethan W, an individual, certificate issued September 21, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated November 21, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N97MH 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 N97MH. 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