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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pipistrel VELIS ELECTRO
N169EA is a Pipistrel VELIS ELECTRO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Littleton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 3, 2024.
Pipistrel: Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VELIS ELECTRO
- Serial number
- VSWX1280097
- 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
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A11382 (octal 50211602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 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 · May 3, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01449195
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jonathan Sawyer
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 98 N Ranch Rd
Littleton, CO 80127-5752
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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 N169EA links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Pipistrel E-811 series 19 aircraft with this engine series · 77 hp
- Littleton, CO 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N169EA.json.
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The public federal record on N169EA, 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 Jonathan Sawyer, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 3, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1280097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N169EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 (serial 54054, cancelled May 19, 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 N169EA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data