{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1987-07-31","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-08-21","city":"ALAMOGORDO","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3802052","mode_s_code":"50204754","mode_s_hex":"A109EC","model":"VENTUS A/16.6","n_number":"N166W","name":"KUENZI STEVEN M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FAIRFIELD","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-06-01","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"BFO94LA083","probable_cause":"THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE MANEUVER.","registration":"N166W","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on June 1, 1994 at Fairfield, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N166W is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6, a glider with no engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 31, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kuenzi Steven M, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 31, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 343 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N166W according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N166W: Accident on June 1, 1994 at Fairfield, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"343","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"18 LADY OF THE MOUNTAIN RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00373881","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N166W","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":1987,"zip":"883109506"}