{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-01-07","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-28","city":"PUNTA GORDA","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","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":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-28","maker":"Schempp-Hirth","maker_country":"DE","maker_raw":"SCHEMPP-HIRTH","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"3802065","mode_s_code":"51171022","mode_s_hex":"A4F212","model":"VENTUS C","n_number":"N418CH","name":"RISING WINGS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DURANGO","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-06-13","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DEN91FA083","probable_cause":"THE ABSENCE OF THERMAL LIFT, THE PILOT'S APPREHENSION, AND HIS LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA.","registration":"N418CH","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on June 13, 1991 at Durango, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N418CH is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS C, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rising Wings INC, a corporation in Punta Gorda, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 7, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rising Wings INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 28, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 387 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N418CH 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 N418CH: Accident on June 13, 1991 at Durango, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"387","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"67 WINDMILL BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00125388","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N418CH","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"339507326"}