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N146EP

Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A

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N146EP is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Allen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 24, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pipistrel (Slovenia)
FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
Model
VIRUS SW 121A · all VIRUS SW 121As and related versions
Serial number
VSWX121A0146
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912S3 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A0B96C (octal 50134554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 17, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 17, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · April 24, 2025
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01432046

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lenz Christian J
Type
Individual
Address
932 Charles River Ct
Allen, TX 75013-5007

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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

2013-09-23Cessna 510 · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N146EP, 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 Lenz Christian J, an individual, certificate issued September 17, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated April 24, 2025, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX121A0146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N146EP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 510 (serial 510-0306, cancelled September 23, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N146EP. 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