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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128
N347EA is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated October 11, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 128 · all VIRUS SW 128s 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 128 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
- VSWX1280029
- 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
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A3D7B4 (octal 50753664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- 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 · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 11, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01467702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Honda Research Institute USA INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 70 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134-1806
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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 N347EA links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128 18 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pipistrel E-811 series 19 aircraft with this engine series · 77 hp
- Honda Research Institute USA INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Jose, CA 371 aircraft registered in this town
- Mineta San Jose International · SJC
- Reid-Hillview Of Santa Clara County · RHV
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N347EA, 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 Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 11, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1280029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N347EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20604797, cancelled July 9, 2001). 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 N347EA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data