Sportine 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
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: AB SPORTINE AVIACIJA
- Model
- LAK-17A
- Serial number
- 127
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A06ED7 (octal 50067327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 3, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00863977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Colvert Elston S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 68344 Wingate Dr
Washington, MI 48095-1254
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data