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Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER
N163EA is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Olson Skies Aviation LLC, an LLC in Ephraim, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 1, 2024.
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Where is it now Last seen October 24 at 6:55 pm.
Last seen October 24 at 6:55 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- ALPHA TRAINER · all ALPHA TRAINERs 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 ALPHA TRAINER 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
- 1230 AT 912 LSA
- 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 912UL2 · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A0FD38 (octal 50176470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 1, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01470986
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olson Skies Aviation 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
- 588 S 100 e
Ephraim, UT 84627-1381
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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 N163EA links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER 170 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 912UL2 186 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Olson Skies Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ephraim, UT 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,357 aircraft registered
- Where N163EA is now · Last seen October 24 at 6:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N163EA, 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 Olson Skies Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 1, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1230 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N163EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Short Brothers Plc SD3-60 VARIANT 100 (serial SH.3686, cancelled May 16, 2011). 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 N163EA. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data