Pipistrel VIRUS 912 SW
N153EG is a Pipistrel VIRUS 912 SW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O AJDOVSCINA
- Model
- VIRUS 912 SW · all VIRUS 912 SWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 384VSW100
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D5BF (octal 50152677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01126747
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shafer James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1660 W Glendale Ave Apt 1207
Phoenix, AZ 85021-8912
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N153EG, 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 Shafer James W, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 384VSW100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N153EG according to the deregistered file. [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 N153EG. 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