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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Pipistrel VIRUS SW 100 IS
N487W 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 an individual in Valencia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 31, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O AJDOVSCINA
- Model
- VIRUS SW 100 IS
- Serial number
- 987 SWN 100 IS
- 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 912 SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A6048E (octal 51402216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 3, 2026
- 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 · January 31, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01301845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marcus Gregory
- 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
- 26802 Stonegate Dr
Valencia, CA 91381-0659
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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 N487W links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912 series 60 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Valencia, CA 45 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N487W, 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 Marcus Gregory, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated January 31, 2020, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 987 SWN 100 IS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N487W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stearman 4CM-1 (serial 4035, cancelled October 24, 1935). 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 N487W. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data