Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER
N161EA 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 an individual in Alto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2023. 1 document is on file: loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- ALPHA TRAINER
- Serial number
- 1176 AT 912 LSA
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL2 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0F5CA (octal 50172712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 21, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01431863
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holcomb Brett
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 272 1St St
Alto, TX 75925-2502
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N161EA, 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 Holcomb Brett, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1176 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Short Brothers Ltd SD3-60 VARIANT 100 (serial SH 3608, cancelled May 16, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N161EA. 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