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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A
N127MS is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A, a glider with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Washington, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 3, 2002.
Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: AB SPORTINE AVIACIJA
- Model
- LAK-17A · all LAK-17As and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass- and carbon-fibre glider. This is how the Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 127
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A06ED7 (octal 50067327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 3, 2002
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00863977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Colvert Elston S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 68344 Wingate Dr
Washington, MI 48095-1254
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N127MS links to the rest of the register
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17 31 registered
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) 48 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Washington, MI 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N127MS.json.
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The public federal record on N127MS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Colvert Elston S, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 3, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N127MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International NA-265-80 (serial 38018, cancelled August 4, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N127MS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data