Sherman Craig W GLASAIR III
N17S is a Sherman Craig W GLASAIR III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Echo Sierra LLC, an LLC in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1998.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 5:31 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sherman Craig W
- Model
- GLASAIR III
- Serial number
- 3246
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A11864 (octal 50214144)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 17, 1998
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00997151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Echo Sierra LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 150 Mahr Ave
Lawrenceburg, TN 38464-3657
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
Connections how N17S links to the rest of the register
- Sherman Craig W 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Echo Sierra LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lawrenceburg, TN 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Lawrenceburg/Lawrence County (Fleeman Field) · 2M2
- Tennessee 6,534 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Where N17S is now · Last seen Saturday at 5:31 pm.
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The public federal record on N17S, 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 Echo Sierra LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 15, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Riddell Orin J L 320 (serial OJ1988, cancelled May 15, 1992). 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]
2 NTSB records under N17S: Accident on September 3, 2011 at Kanab, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 1, 1991 at Agua Caliente, CA: serious 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sherman Craig W GLASAIR III · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, as a result of a flat left main landing gear tire.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Riddell LANCAIR 235 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PROPELLER BLADES DUE TO A WEAKENING OF THE WOOD STRUCTURE DUE TO ACID HYDROLYSIS. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE OF THE PROPELLER ASSEMBLY BY ALLOWING EXPOSURE TO EXCESSIVE MOISTURE AND HEAT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data