No free picture of N17VP or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Gary Schmitt JA30 SUPERSTOL
N17VP is a Gary Schmitt JA30 SUPERSTOL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Avstar INC, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 23, 2016.
Where is it now checking the live feed…
Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gary Schmitt
- Model
- JA30 SUPERSTOL
- Serial number
- JA433-01-15
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC JA30 SUPERSTOL
- Transponder code
- A118BD (octal 50214275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · February 23, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01192069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avstar INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7023 Perimeter Rd S Ste 200
Seattle, WA 98108-3850
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.
Connections how N17VP links to the rest of the register
- Gary Schmitt 3 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 914 series 228 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Avstar INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Seattle, WA 1,558 aircraft registered in this town
- Boeing Fld/King County International · BFI
- Seattle-Tacoma International · SEA
- Kenmore Air Seaplane Base · W55
- Seattle Seaplanes · 0W0
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17VP.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N17VP, 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 Avstar INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 23, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA433-01-15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17VP according to the deregistered file. [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 N17VP: Accident on July 11, 2021 at May, ID: 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: Just Aircraft LLC JA30 SUPERSTOL · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground-loop and collision with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data