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N14NL

Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A

Valid Electric gliderNevada

N14NL is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Minden, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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
115
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0A18E (octal 50120616)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 24, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00353634

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whelchel Nathan Alan
Type
Individual
Address
2571 Nye Dr
Minden, NV 89423-7012

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N14NL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Whelchel Nathan Alan, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N14NL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N14NL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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