{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-10-26","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2022-07-18","city":"BIRMINGHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Sportine Aviacija (LAK)","maker_country":"LT","maker_raw":"SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"05637VC","mode_s_code":"50352425","mode_s_hex":"A1D515","model":"LAK-17B FES MINI","n_number":"N217SB","name":"BAIR STEVEN L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N217SB is a Sportine Aviacija (LAK) LAK-17B FES MINI, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 26, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bair Steven L, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 26, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 021 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N217SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-35 (serial 586, cancelled July 11, 2001). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N217SB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"021","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2027 COUNTRY RIDGE CIR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01305010","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N217SB","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"LAK-17 with front electric sustainer","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"35243"}