Gmk Ventures Llc AL18
N17GK is a Gmk Ventures Llc AL18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gmk Ventures LLC, an LLC in Livingston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 16, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gmk Ventures Llc
- Model
- AL18
- Serial number
- AL-331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont IOX370 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO AL18
- Transponder code
- A11774 (octal 50213564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 16, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01321022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gmk Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 826 Fm 3277
Livingston, TX 77351-5291
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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
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The public federal record on N17GK, 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 Gmk Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 8, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 16, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17GK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bensen Gyrocopter RSB (serial 24931, cancelled April 11, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N17GK: Accident on June 27, 2022 at Moab, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gmk Ventures LLC AL18 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a landing attempt, which resulted in a ground loop and collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the absence of an airspeed indicator due to an alternator failure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data