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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17C FES
N17VD is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17C FES, a glider with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hopewell, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 22, 2024.
Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO
- Model
- LAK-17C FES · all LAK-17C FESs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass- and carbon-fibre glider. This is how the Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 312
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A118B3 (octal 50214263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 6, 2024
- 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 2024
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01438808
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daumas Alain
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 27 Zion Rd
Hopewell, NJ 08525-2611 - Co-owners
- Vining Ben
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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
Connections how N17VD links to the rest of the register
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17 31 registered
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) 48 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hopewell, NJ 3 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,020 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17VD.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N17VD, 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 Daumas Alain, a co-owned, certificate issued May 6, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated May 22, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17VD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283286, cancelled December 13, 2012). 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 N17VD. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data