Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E
N97TW is a Schempp-Hirth VENTUS 3E, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Beaver Dams, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 4, 2026.
Schempp-Hirth: Ventus and Discus with electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schempp-Hirth (Germany)FAA spelling: SCHEMPP-HIRTH FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH
- Model
- VENTUS 3E
- Serial number
- 263 EP
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Solo EMRAX 208 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AD830A (octal 53301412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 4, 2026
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01547403
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Claude M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 471 Post Creek Rd
Beaver Dams, NY 14812-9124 - Co-owners
- Welles Gillett T
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
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data