Laessle Frank W VANS RV-4
N517GS is a Laessle Frank W VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ptag Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Vidalia, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Laessle Frank W
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 2996
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A67C17 (octal 51476027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 8, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00885362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ptag Flight Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 100 Semco Rd
Vidalia, GA 30474-8741
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N517GS, 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 Ptag Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2996 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N517GS 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 N517GS. 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