Rolladen-Schneider LS 4A
N49LS is a Rolladen-Schneider LS 4A, a glider with no engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 5, 1985. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS 4A · all LS 4As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4483
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A60ECA (octal 51407312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 5, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00501555
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Lieu Neil R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1325 Silk Oak Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80525-5597
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 1
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The public federal record on N49LS, 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 Van Lieu Neil R, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated April 5, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N49LS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N49LS. 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