Pipistrel TAURUS 503
N221KS is a Pipistrel TAURUS 503, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 13, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)
- Model
- TAURUS 503 · all TAURUS 503s and related versions
- Serial number
- 049 T 503
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A1E5AA (octal 50362652)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 13, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01035280
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shaw Kevin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 27289
Houston, TX 77227-7289
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N221KS, 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 Shaw Kevin, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2009, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 13, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 049 T 503 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N221KS 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 N221KS. 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