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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rolladen-Schneider
- Model
- LS 4A · all LS 4As 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-fibre glider. This is how the Rolladen-Schneider LS-4 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
- 4483
- 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
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A60ECA (octal 51407312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (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 · April 5, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00501555
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Lieu Neil R
- 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
- 1325 Silk Oak Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80525-5597
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N49LS links to the rest of the register
- Rolladen-Schneider LS-4 56 registered
- Rolladen-Schneider 117 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Fort Collins, CO 165 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolladen-Schneider LS-4 4 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N49LS.json.
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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]
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 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 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 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data