Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17B FES MINI
N217SB is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17B FES MINI, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 26, 2019.
Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO
- Model
- LAK-17B FES MINI
- Serial number
- 021
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A1D515 (octal 50352425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 26, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01305010
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bair Steven L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2027 Country Ridge Cir
Birmingham, AL 35243
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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 N217SB, 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 Bair Steven L, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 26, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N217SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 (serial 586, cancelled July 11, 2001). 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 N217SB. 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 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 August 27, 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