Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128
N47RR is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ultimate Aviation LLC, an LLC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 1, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 128
- Serial number
- VSWX1280061
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A5C048 (octal 51340110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 1, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01360485
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ultimate Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 808 Morris St
Philadelphia, PA 19148-1206
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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 N47RR, 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 Ultimate Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 1, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1280061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47RR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 243283, 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]
1 NTSB record under N47RR: Accident on June 16, 1983 at Stehekin, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA83FA127 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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