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N166VT

Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT

Valid Electric gliderFlorida

N166VT is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS BT, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Panama City Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 18, 1987.

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

Aircraft

Maker
Schempp-Hirth (Germany)
Model
VENTUS BT
Serial number
21
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A109E5 (octal 50204745)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 11, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · February 18, 1987
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00562113

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Branham Ronald O
Type
Co-owned
Address
617 16Th St
Panama City Beach, FL 32413-3729
Co-owners
Branham Karen G

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.

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