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N169EA

Pipistrel VELIS ELECTRO

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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

Aircraft

Maker
Pipistrel (Slovenia)
FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
Model
VELIS ELECTRO
Serial number
VSWX1280097
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A11382 (octal 50211602)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 16, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 16, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · May 3, 2024
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01449195

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jonathan Sawyer
Type
Individual
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

2011-05-19Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 · exported to United Arab Emirat · Valid registration

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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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jonathan Sawyer, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 3, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1280097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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 N169EA. 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