Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E
N97TW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Beaver Dams, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 4, 2026.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3E
- Serial number
- 263 EP
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Solo EMRAX 208 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AD830A (octal 53301412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 4, 2026
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01547403
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Claude M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 471 Post Creek Rd
Beaver Dams, NY 14812-9124 - Co-owners
- Welles Gillett T
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 N97TW, 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, a co-owned, certificate issued March 13, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 4, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 263 EP for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-7920051, cancelled January 11, 2011). 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 N97TW. 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