Pipistrel 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 Palmdale, 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 engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A6048E (octal 51402216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 31, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01301845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marcus Gregory
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4643 Greencrest Way
Palmdale, CA 93551-1848
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data