Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO
N197AM is a Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to City Of Reedley, a government body in Reedley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated August 12, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL LSA S R L
- Model
- ALPHA ELECTRO
- Serial number
- 878 AE 60
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel PEM 60MVLC · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A18238 (octal 50301070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition · August 12, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01272843
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Reedley
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 845 G St
Reedley, CA 93654-2625
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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
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The public federal record on N197AM, 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 City Of Reedley, a government body, certificate issued December 27, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 2021, 4 years after the 2017 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 878 AE 60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N197AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter AS 350 B2 (serial 2917, cancelled February 4, 2016). 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 N197AM. 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