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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17C FES
N879T is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17C FES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 19, 2025.
Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)FAA spelling: UAB SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO
- Model
- LAK-17C FES · all LAK-17C FESs 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
- 314
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lz Design FES-LAK-M100 · 30 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AC196E (octal 53014556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2025
- 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 · April 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01488582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hahn Todd T
- 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
- 3220 Birnamwood Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-7371
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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 N879T 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
- LZ Design (FES) FES-LAK-M100 4 aircraft with this engine series · 30 hp
- Colorado Springs, CO 557 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N879T, 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 Hahn Todd T, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N879T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (serial TC-853, cancelled November 29, 1968). 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 N879T. 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