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N1428B

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-B

Valid Electric gliderIndiana

N1428B 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 Kokomo, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 19, 1984.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS-B
Serial number
37
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A0AD90 (octal 50126620)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 12, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · April 19, 1984
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00292751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Richard G
Type
Individual
Address
2124 Chevy Ct
Kokomo, IN 46902-2530

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

1955-08-30Luscombe 8F · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data