Pipistrel VIRUS SW 100 IS
N388B is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 100 IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Scout Aerospace LLC, an LLC in Greensboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 10, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O AJDOVSCINA
- Model
- VIRUS SW 100 IS
- Serial number
- 971 SW 100 IS
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A4791B (octal 51074433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · March 10, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01301072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scout Aerospace LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3905 Obriant Pl
Greensboro, NC 27410-8608
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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
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The public federal record on N388B, 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 Scout Aerospace LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 1, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 10, 2020, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 971 SW 100 IS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N388B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech H35 (serial D-5284, cancelled September 21, 2012). 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 N388B. 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