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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A
N225W is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17A, a glider with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gore Springs, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 3, 2002.
Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: AB SPORTINE AVIACIJA
- Model
- LAK-17A · all LAK-17As 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
- 106
- 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
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A1F588 (octal 50372610)
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 17, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 3, 2002
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00685770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Byrne Ronald e III
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3620 Cadaretta Rd
Gore Springs, MS 38929-6622
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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 N225W 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
- Gore Springs, MS 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N225W, 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 Byrne Ronald e III, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2002, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 3, 2002, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N225W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NAVION (serial NAV4826, cancelled May 24, 1989). 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 N225W. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data