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N243AR

Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO

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N243AR 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 June 14, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated August 23, 2020.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pipistrel (Slovenia)
FAA spelling: PIPISTREL LSA S R L
Model
ALPHA ELECTRO
Serial number
880 AE 60
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel PEM 60MVLC · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A23B34 (octal 50435464)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 14, 2021
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition · August 23, 2020
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01272841

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1992-04-08Gulfstream Am Corp Comm Div 695 · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration

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The public federal record on N243AR, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to City Of Reedley, a government body, certificate issued June 14, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 23, 2020, 3 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 880 AE 60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N243AR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream Am Corp Comm Div 695 (serial 95058, cancelled April 8, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N243AR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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