Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CM
N9UY is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 2CM, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Price Michael F, a partnership in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 21, 2005.
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
- compositeThe 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
- 166
- 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
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AC6C53 (octal 53066123)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2025
- 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00220449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Price Michael F
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Soaringnv
1142 Airport Rd
Minden, NV 89423-8611 - Co-owners
- Kubeck Roger A
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9UY links to the rest of the register
- Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 70 registered
- Schempp-Hirth 515 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Solo 2625 01 39 aircraft with this engine series · 53 hp
- Price Michael F 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Minden, NV 97 aircraft registered in this town
- Minden-Tahoe Airport · MEV
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N9UY, 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 Price Michael F, a partnership, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated December 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9UY according to the deregistered file. [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 N9UY. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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