Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO 135
N415EA is a Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO 135, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 29, 2025.
Pipistrel: Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- TAURUS ELECTRO 135
- Serial number
- TEX13500190
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (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 ELECTRO 40/30 · 54 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A4E718 (octal 51163430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2025
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01522682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elemental Aviation Lc
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 555 N Woodlawn St Ste 208 Bldg 1
Wichita, KS 67208-3672
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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 N415EA links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Pipistrel ELECTRO 40/30 7 aircraft with this engine series · 54 hp
- Elemental Aviation Lc 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 14, 2027
- Wichita, KS 1,309 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Splashguard, bent · 1998-01-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Belt Ring, cracked · 1996-08-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bolt, missing · 1996-01-05
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The public federal record on N415EA, 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 Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 29, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TEX13500190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N415EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (serial 47749, cancelled July 3, 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]
1 NTSB record under N415EA: Incident on June 22, 1990 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-9-51 · operated under 121
INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE INSPECTION OF THE AIRPLANE WHICH RESULTED IN OPERATION OF THE TIRE WHILE UNDER INFLATED AND ITS SUBSEQUENT FAILURE. A FACTOR IN THE INCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE QUALITY CONTROL BY THE TIRE RECAPPING FACILITY WHICH FAILED TO REPAIR A PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED TIRE DEFECT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
