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N944JS

Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17B FES MINI

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N944JS is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17B FES MINI, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Holland, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 5, 2019.

Sportine Aviacija (LAK): LAK-17 with front electric sustainer

Aircraft

Maker
Sportine Aviacija (LAK) (Lithuania)
FAA spelling: SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO
Model
LAK-17B FES MINI
Serial number
015
Type
Glider
Power
Electric, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
2018
Transponder code
AD1CDD (octal 53216335)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 21, 2019
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
March 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing · April 5, 2019
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01291995

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shaw Justin M
Type
Individual
Address
87 Portsmouth Ct
Holland, PA 18966-2621

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N944JS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Shaw Justin M, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing, dated April 5, 2019, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N944JS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N944JS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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