{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-04-19","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-26","city":"COLORADO SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42810","engine_horsepower":30,"engine_maker":"LZ DESIGN","engine_model":"FES-LAK-M100","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-26","maker":"Sportine Aviacija (LAK)","maker_country":"LT","maker_raw":"UAB SPORTINE AVIACIJA IR KO","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"05642U6","mode_s_code":"53014556","mode_s_hex":"AC196E","model":"LAK-17C FES","n_number":"N879T","name":"HAHN TODD T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hahn Todd T, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 314 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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 N879T. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"314","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3220 BIRNAMWOOD DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01488582","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N879T","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"LAK-17 with front electric sustainer","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"809207371"}