Pipistrel VIRUS SW
N228JW is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Park, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated October 20, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)
- Model
- VIRUS SW · all VIRUS SWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 726 SWN 100IS
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912IS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A1FF96 (octal 50377626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · October 20, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01264812
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Friesz Russell Alan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 109 Mcbride Ln
Cedar Park, TX 78613-7417
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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 N228JW, 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 Friesz Russell Alan, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated October 20, 2017, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 726 SWN 100IS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228JW 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 N228JW. 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