Pipistrel VIRUS SW
N101RJ is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Heron Aviation Holdings LLC, an LLC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 16, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW · all VIRUS SWs 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. This is how the Pipistrel VIRUS SW 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
- VSWX1270015
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS3 · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A009EB (octal 50004753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 23, 2026
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 16, 2022
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01376326
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heron Aviation Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14826 Gateside Dr
Fort Wayne, IN 46814-7574
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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 N101RJ links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel VIRUS SW 40 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS3 13 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Heron Aviation Holdings LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fort Wayne, IN 195 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Wayne International · FWA
- Smith Field · SMD
- Indiana 5,702 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N101RJ, 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 Heron Aviation Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 16, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1270015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N101RJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jackson-Wedemeyer BREEZY 1972-B (serial 29461, cancelled October 11, 2012). 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 N101RJ. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data