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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Pipistrel TAURUS GLIDER
N42CE is a Pipistrel TAURUS GLIDER, a glider with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 24, 2008.
Pipistrel: Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)
- Model
- TAURUS GLIDER
- Serial number
- 019T 503 1007
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503UL · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A4F97D (octal 51174575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 24, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00427869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Erickson Clarence B III
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1066 Erie St
Shreveport, LA 71106-1404
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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 N42CE links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503UL 24 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Shreveport, LA 275 aircraft registered in this town
- Shreveport Downtown Airport · DTN
- Shreveport Regional · SHV
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N42CE.json.
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The public federal record on N42CE, 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 Erickson Clarence B III, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2007, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 24, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 019T 503 1007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42CE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3157, cancelled date not given). 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 N42CE. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data