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A Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2, the same model family as N989R
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N989R

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CM

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesElectric gliderFlorida

N989R is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CM, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bostik Industries LLC, an LLC in Satellite Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 16, 2004.

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

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Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS 2CM · all VENTUS 2CMs and related versions
Built of
composite
The airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
139
Type
GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Solo 2625 01 · 53 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2003
Transponder code
ADCE0A (octal 53347012)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 25, 2020
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 16, 2004
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00084569

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bostik Industries LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
975 Highway A1A # 102
Satellite Beach, FL 32937-2325

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N989R links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Bostik Industries LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 20, 2027
Place
  • Satellite Beach, FL 25 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N989R, 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 Bostik Industries LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 25, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated January 16, 2004, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N989R 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 N989R. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data