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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Freedom Flight Works Inc LRPADS 2K TP-R90
N488WV is a Freedom Flight Works Inc LRPADS 2K TP-R90, a powered parachute with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Freedom Flight Works INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated June 26, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Freedom Flight Works Inc
- Model
- LRPADS 2K TP-R90
- Serial number
- 00001
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A60859 (octal 51404131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2025
- 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 · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 26, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01366662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freedom Flight Works INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4060 Sorrento Valley Blvd Ste A
San Diego, CA 92121-1428
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N488WV links to the rest of the register
- Freedom Flight Works Inc 12 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 915 IS 393 aircraft with this engine series · 135 hp
- Freedom Flight Works INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- San Diego, CA 730 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N488WV.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N488WV, 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 Freedom Flight Works INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 27, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated June 26, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488WV 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 N488WV. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data