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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO
N198AM 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 15, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated April 23, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL LSA S R L
- Model
- ALPHA ELECTRO · all ALPHA ELECTROs 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. The electric version of the Alpha trainer. This is how the Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO electric 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
- 879 AE 60
- 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 PEM 60MVLC · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A185EF (octal 50302757)
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 15, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 2025
- 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 · April 23, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01272844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of Reedley
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N198AM links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO electric trainer 6 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pipistrel PEM 60MVLC 6 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- City of Reedley 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Reedley, CA 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Reedley Municipal · O32
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Crankcase, cracked · 2003-05-06
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The public federal record on N198AM, 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 15, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 2024, 7 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 879 AE 60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N198AM according to the deregistered file. [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 N198AM. 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