Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B
N984T 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 Lake Oswego, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated January 25, 2016.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
- Model
- VENTUS-B · all VENTUS-Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 61
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- ADBBA9 (octal 53335651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · January 25, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00414550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watrous Dave Warren
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2426
Lake Oswego, OR 97035-0677
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 · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N984T, 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 Watrous Dave Warren, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 25, 2016, 35 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
This airframe (serial 61) previously flew as N240WT. N240WT cancelled date not given. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
N984T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-33 (serial CD-184, cancelled October 29, 1963). 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 N240WT: Accident on June 19, 1985 at Waitsfield, VT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC85FA152 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
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