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N17VE

Victor Echo Llc SPORTSMAN GS-2

Valid

N17VE is a Victor Echo Llc SPORTSMAN GS-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Victor Echo Llc
Model
SPORTSMAN GS-2
Serial number
7453
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2017
Kit
GLASAIR AVIATION USA LLC SPORTSMAN GS-2
Transponder code
A118B4 (octal 50214264)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 23, 2017
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 29, 2017
FAA region
—
FAA record id
01253757

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
LLC
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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1994-07-18Johnson Clinton O KR-2 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N17VE, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued May 23, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N17VE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Johnson Clinton O KR-2 (serial 868, cancelled July 18, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N17VE: Accident on April 5, 1985 at Laporte, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW85FRA01Accident on April 5, 1985 at Laporte, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 868

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Johnson-Rand KR-2 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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