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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Phoenix Air Sro U-15 PHOENIX
N217W is a Phoenix Air Sro U-15 PHOENIX, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Shingleton Design LLC, an LLC in Brownsburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 23, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Phoenix Air Sro
- Model
- U-15 PHOENIX · all U-15 PHOENIXs 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. This is how the Phoenix Air Sro U-15 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
- 23/U15
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (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 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A1D577 (octal 50352567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 24, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 23, 2013
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01127884
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shingleton Design 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
- PO Box 116
Brownsburg, VA 24415-0116
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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 2
Connections how N217W links to the rest of the register
- Phoenix Air Sro U-15 22 registered
- Phoenix Air Sro 28 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,382 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Shingleton Design LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Brownsburg, VA 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N217W, 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 Shingleton Design LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 24, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for glider, dated August 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23/U15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N217W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Creation GTE (serial 5111946, cancelled August 12, 2009); Stinson SM-7B (serial M-3003, cancelled August 1, 1939). 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 N217W. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data