Pipistrel 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
- Serial number
- 879 AE 60
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel PEM 60MVLC · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A185EF (octal 50302757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · April 23, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01272844
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.
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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 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