Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER
N488LP is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ultimate Aviation LLC, an LLC in Westtown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 2, 2023.
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Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 8:30 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
- 1116 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 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A60759 (octal 51403531)
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 28, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- 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 2, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01414148
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ultimate Aviation 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
- PO Box 144
Westtown, PA 19395-0144
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N488LP 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 912UL series 402 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Ultimate Aviation LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Westtown, PA 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,182 aircraft registered
- Where N488LP is now · Last seen October 15 at 8:30 am.
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The public federal record on N488LP, 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 July 28, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 2, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1116 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488LP 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 N488LP. 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
