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Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER
N487LP is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Lift Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Carmel, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 1, 2023.
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Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 12:02 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- ALPHA TRAINER · all ALPHA TRAINERs 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 ALPHA TRAINER 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
- 1156 AT 912 LSA
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A603A2 (octal 51401642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 1, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01414142
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lift Aircraft LLC
- 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
- 2 Brickyard Ln
Carmel, IN 46032-0059
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N487LP links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER 170 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Lift Aircraft LLC 111 aircraft in the fleet
- Carmel, IN 399 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
- Where N487LP is now · Last seen October 10 at 12:02 am.
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The public federal record on N487LP, 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 Lift Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 1, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1156 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N487LP according to the deregistered file. [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 N487LP. 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