Ludtke Edward L RV6A
N17EL is a Ludtke Edward L RV6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 17, 1997. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ludtke Edward L
- Model
- RV6A
- Serial number
- 23213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A11743 (octal 50213503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 17, 1997
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00936741
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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 1
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The public federal record on N17EL, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued February 1, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 17, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17EL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17EL. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data