Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER
N1179L is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Smooth Landings LLC, an LLC in Lakeville, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 22, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- ALPHA TRAINER · all ALPHA TRAINERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1179 AT 912 LSA
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A049D2 (octal 50044722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 22, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01432042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smooth Landings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 18199 Icon Ct
Lakeville, MN 55044-2277
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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 2
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The public federal record on N1179L, 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 Smooth Landings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 19, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 22, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1179 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1179L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T337G (serial P3370131, cancelled August 21, 2013); Iverson-Budd MITCHELL B-10 (serial 317, cancelled date not given). 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 N1179L. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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