Alisport SILENT 2 ELECTRO
N278SE is an Alisport SILENT 2 ELECTRO, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alisport (Italy)FAA spelling: ALISPORT SRL
- Model
- SILENT 2 ELECTRO
- Serial number
- 2078
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A2C5C9 (octal 50542711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 19, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01052830
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Read Russell P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1658 Orchard Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9693
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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 N278SE, 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 Read Russell P, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 19, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278SE 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]
1 NTSB record under N278SE: Accident on September 3, 2022 at Hood River, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Alisport SRL SILENT 2 ELECTRO · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to follow the checklist to remove the wing wheel and tail dolly before takeoff.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data