Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A
N212EA is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in N Richlnd Hls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated January 2, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 121A · all VIRUS SW 121As 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. This is how the Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A 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
- VSWX121A0143
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912S3 · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A1C155 (octal 50340525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 2, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01430872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Savage David
- 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
- 7512 Bursey Rd
N Richlnd Hls, TX 76182-9201
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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 N212EA links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121A 10 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912S3 96 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- N Richlnd Hls, TX 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N212EA, 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 Savage David, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for market survey, dated January 2, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX121A0143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N212EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 212 (serial 30760, cancelled May 22, 1992). 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 N212EA. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data