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Schempp-hirth VENTUS BT · Panama City Beach, FL
N166VT is a Schempp-hirth VENTUS BT (serial 21), registered to Branham Ronald O (co-owner) in Panama City Beach, FL. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires July 2031; the airworthiness certificate dates from February 1987 (39 years ago). It carries a Ama/Expr UNKNOWN ENG engine, the engine on 57% of registered Schempp-hirth VENTUS BTs. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A109E5. It is one of 7 Schempp-hirth VENTUS BT aircraft on the FAA registry. Branham Ronald O holds 2 aircraft on the registry.
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4 of the 7 registered Schempp-hirth VENTUS BT carry this engine (57%), across 2 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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